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. We've got a lot to get to today. and of course before we get to any of of it, because we are doing the work of Black Talklandia, we have a ritual. This is this space where we do our best to embody the best in the Black Talk radio tradition. And that means that here we have the difficult conversations, though they may make you uncomfortable, but difficult conversations about race, gender, culture, identity, politics, and the law. And we do that every single day because

every single day it matters. And by having these discussions, we learn how to be better people

who then learn how to build better communities. And as a result, we are able to shape a better world.

And that is for us, anyway, how talk empowers and becomes action. The challenge with that work

is that it's heavy.

And if you just go right into the heavy work of Black Talklandia, it can be pretty depressing

pretty quickly.

So we start with our ritual called a moment of gratitude because the science has confirmed

and lived experiences have revealed that when we are rooted in gratitude, we cannot be trapped

by fear.

When we are rooted in joy and appreciation, we cannot be trapped by loneliness and depression. So this ritual is called a moment of gratitude. It's pretty simple. So simple, in fact, it goes a little something like this. Hit it. 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 when we hear it,

we will collectively begin taking the slowest, the deepest and most lung capacity expanding,

joyful heart, invigorate, and troubled mind cleansing, and weary, so 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. 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 Nubians, the podcast community, the YouTube community. I am just so grateful for all of the

work we are creating here. And today I want to talk a little bit about notions of care, right,

how we care for each other. Yesterday, we talked a lot about the no king. Actually, we didn't talk

quite as much about the no king's protests, or excuse me, the no king's march. But we did talk about it enough to get a sense that it was one, something that Americans should be glad that they did. We all recognize that it's going to take, that was a nice effort. It's going to take way, way, way, way, way more. But considering where

Americans are starting from, it was a good

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