Welcome to another episode of Lurie Breaks It Down, a podcast where we dig deeply to connect the dots on the issues that shape our world.

I'm Lurie Daniel Favors, author, activist, attorney, and the host of the Lurie Daniel Favors show on Sirius XM's Urban View, Channel 126. If you like what you're about to hear, go ahead and give us five stars and then tell everybody that you know. And if you don't like it, just, child, keep it to yourself and pray our strength. Okay, thank you so much. Also, don't forget to check out my YouTube page, Lurie Daniel Favor's Media, where you should subscribe, like, and share, because then you'll get notified when I post videos from my show, which I do just about every single day and when I go live with my YouTube audience. When we talk about Juneteenth, it's a very important conversation, one that requires

us to understand a little bit of history. And anyone who has been in any room with me where I'm

speaking or talking about anything of any importance, you all know that I really firmly believe

in a principle known as Sankofa. Sankofa is a West African symbol that comes out of the Adinkara symbol system that basically,

and I'll talk about this in the podcast episode itself, but it's basically a symbol that is designed

to convey to us the importance of the past as it pertains to understanding our current reality

and the importance of the past as it pertains to our ability to understand the future. And so in this conversation today, we're going to have a bit of a discourse around Juneteenth

and not Juneteenth in the way that we typically talk about it, but the other side of Juneteenth.

We often think about Juneteenth as something that is solely centered on the experiences of the enslaved Africans who finally received

notification of their freedom. But there's another side to that story that I think we need to explore,

particularly in light of the way that the history of Juneteenth shapes what's happening with us

in this country right now and really is going to have resonance with where we're headed into the

future. I hope you enjoy this podcast because it really is helping to have resonance with where we're headed into the future. I hope you

enjoy this podcast because it really is helping to set the tone for how we're going to have to

think and move and frame our organizing and activism going forward. And in light of everything

that's happening in the world right now, I think our ancestors definitely understood the assignment.

So let's get into it. I want to talk a little bit about the way

we framed Juneteenth. And these were comments that I shared yesterday. If you were listening to

Urban View yesterday, you heard us play the Urban View Town Hall. Black Men Matter. It was a

Father's Day tribute that we put together where we had amazing brothers who came into the studio.

A lot of you got to participate and watch that town hall happen and participate in the town hall virtually.

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