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. So our economy is about to go through some things. And when I say our economy, I'm not

just talking about the American economy, which is, in fact, about to go through some things.

I'm talking about us. And if you know who us is and you know who us is. And if you don't know

who us is, well, then just listen along. I'm sure you'll find some relevant points anyway.

But we are collectively, as the global majority, going to experience some things,

the National Urban League recently issued a declaration of a state of emergency for Black America

in its 2025 report. In addition to warning about a really dangerous rise in digital extremism,

the report also documents that, quote, during the 2024 election

cycle, accounts supporting progressive candidates also saw their accounts blocked and shadow

banned without explanation, end quote, which is really an indication that it's not just the

economy that we need to be concerned about. It's not just the overall state of civil rights

and the undermining of civil rights that we need to be concerned about, but the way in which voices that are speaking out against this sort of oppression, repression, suppression, suppression, are also being silenced in the primary communications platforms that we have all come to rely upon.

When it comes to the black economy, my friends, we about to go through some things. Let's

look first at this report and then we'll get into some of the other articles that we need to

address and review for our conversation this afternoon. According to the National Urban

League, they have issued a quote, again, state of emergency for democracy and civil rights.

According to the report, the organization's 49th annual

State of Black America report, and I'll just pause here to say the state of black America

report usually is something that I look forward to when it comes to the Urban League because

they provide a lot of really nice comprehensive analysis as to where things are, where things are

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