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. All right, good people. So today is Friday, October the 31st, which is yes, Halloween.

Shout out to all of you who will be out with the kiddos today. And happy Die de los Muerre

for all of you, I think I might have said that wrong. But to all of you who are celebrating

Die of Los Muerrethos, shout out to you as well. Today, I want to share with you a conversation

I had with the amazing Dr. Wendy Williams, who is just a dynamic psychologist, a super dope sister, somebody I know in real life and have loved and cherished for years.

She's a dynamic advocate and educator who really works to combine the realms of education and psychology so that we are driving impactful scholarship and leadership.

Now, her research and intervention projects

often are designed to illuminate the very rich inner lives of black women and girls, and she

really engages in an effort to tap into the very profound knowledge and experiences that we all

bring to the table in order to create very culturally responsive educational and psychological

strategies.

Now, today I asked her when we were talking on the show to really talk with us about what

is it that the healers in our community need in order to navigate this moment.

We are the day before, just a few hours before, access to food for 40-some million people

is going to be cut off in this country, a situation

that quite frankly is unnecessary and is an outgrowth of policy choices made by people who

might be some of the most diabolical dastardly beings on the planet. But what I really wanted from

Dr. Wendy Williams was a sense as to the other ways of framing what's happening right now,

because we obviously in our

community are going to do the work of working on behalf of the people we're going to make sure our

people get fit because that's what black community do for each other us going to take care of us

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