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 have a ritual on this show. The ritual is pretty important. It's a central pillar of

the show because here in Black Talklandia, the work can be kind of difficult, can be really hard.

And because of that and because life be life and just as we are living as individuals, we are in a

situation where it's really important that we have proactive steps to make sure that we are

tapping into the most positive, optimistic energy

that we possibly can. And we use a ritual on this show to ensure that we are tapping into

joy, gratitude, and appreciation. And that ritual is called a moment of gratitude, and it goes a little

something like the end. In just a minute, you're going to hear music. And when you hear that music,

it's going to be an invitation to you to join the rest of us.

Because when we hear it, we are going to collectively begin taking the slowest, the deepest and most lung capacity expanding, joyful heart invigorating, and troubled mind cleansing, and the most weary soul uplifting.

Frankly, it's going to be the most amazingly juicy breath that you've ever taken with a couple million people people at once because we are going to kick off with this breath our most important segment of every

single day it is time for our moment of gratitude Everyday folks. Every day, folks, every day we got to do it and every day it matters.

Shout out to the team.

Shout out to the Urban View family and the Nubians.

We are rocking and rolling together.

And shout out to all of you in the podcast family and the YouTube family.

We appreciate y'all. And thank you for joining the work that we do here. We are today taking a bit of a pause. We've been talking a lot about power this month. And I guess actually this isn't a pause. It's more of an additional version of power, right? A lot of times when we're thinking about our power, particularly for those of us in the

global majority, it's, the question isn't so much, do we have powers in whose purpose are we using

that power? For what purpose are we using that power? And who's, who's going to benefit from the

exercise of that power? And the reason that's important is because when you are a part of a community

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