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. Now, we have a ritual on this show that we need to get to because I got a lot to cover today to set the tone for our conversation. And this is a ritual that we incorporate every day, because every day we sit here on the Lurie Daniel Favor show in a space of doing the work of what we call Black Talk Landia. And Black Talk Landia is a space where we do our best to embody the best in the Black Talk radio tradition, which means we have the difficult discussions about how the world got to be so damn messy when it comes to race, gender, culture,

identity, politics, and the law.

And we do this work every single day because it helps us to learn how to be better people

who learn how to build better communities.

And as a result, we are then able to shape a better world.

And for us, that is how talk

empowers and becomes action so this ritual is significant and it will allow us to intentionally

curate a sense of joy and gratitude and appreciation that's always the goal because when we

have done that we cannot be trapped by fear loneliness and depression so the ritual is

pretty simple it's called a moment of gratitude and goes a little something

like this in just a minute you're gonna hear music the music will be an

invitation to you to join the rest of us because when we hear it we are gonna

collectively begin taking the slowest the deepest the most lung capacity

expanding joyful heart invigorate and 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.

Thank you. I'm going to

I'm going to Every day, folks, we got to do it, and every day it matters.

Shout out to the Urban View family, the Nubians, and to everybody who is a part of making this world a better place.

We have been sitting in a space of reverence for

traditions of indigenity. We acknowledged this week began with Indigenous People's Heritage Month,

and we have been drawing, mostly this week, have been drawing from the wisdom of indigenous

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