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. Because this is Black Talklandia, we also know that the stories we deal with tend to be

kind of difficult. They do. Tend to be challenging, tend to be weary and weighing on the soul. And so,

we have a ritual on this show that we use every single day to make sure that we are intentionally

tapping into the greatest sets of joyful, most optimistic and grateful, appreciative emotions that we possibly can.

And we do that because, again, Black Talk Landy is hard. So is living a life on planet Earth.

And so we want to make sure before we get to the hard, serious topics that we are doing everything

we can to make sure our spiritual health is on point, our emotional health is on point,

and our mental health is on point. This ritual that we use every day is called a moment of gratitude, and it's pretty simple, so simple, in fact, it goes a little something like this. In just a minute, you're going to hear music. That music is going to be an invitation to you to join the rest of us because we will, upon hearing it, collectively begin taking the slowest,

the deepest, the most lung capacity expanding, joyful heart invigorating, troubled mind cleansing,

and weary soul, uplifting, the most amazingly juicy breath.

As we kick off our most important segment of every single day, it is time for our moment of

gratitude. Everyday, folks, we got to do it. And every day, folks, we got to do it. And every day it matters. Shout out to the team. Shout out to the Urban View family, the Nubian family, the podcast family, the YouTube

family. Oh, it's amazing to be able to bring all of these elements together and just have this

space where we can come together and focus. And today we're actually going to focus on the words

of a revered, beloved, treasured ancestor, new ancestor, one of the newest, actually.

Mama Asada Shakur, we learned news last week that she'd made her transition at the age of 78,

and she is someone who was the embodiment for so many of us of what a consummate revolutionary

looks like. She was someone who lived a life

that felt like it embodied a love letter to black people and embodied a letter of resistance

to black people. I remember being very, very young when one of my uncles, I can't remember

for it was Uncle Howard or Uncle David, one of them uncles. You know, my uncles, they be the ones.

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