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.

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First up, you should just know that... audience. All right, good people, today is Monday, September the 29th. Let's see what news I want to

share with you all today. First up, you should just know that over the weekend, we learned not only

of the passing of the phenomenal Asada Shakur, who is now a revered ancestor, having transitioned

from being a revered elder. And we talked more extensively about the life that she led

and the words of empowerment that she left for all of us in her phenomenal autobiography and

so many other writings that she has contributed to this universe. I really encourage every single one of

you to get to know her, get to know that legacy, her history, and everything that she is sacrificed

on behalf of our community,

and what we can still learn from her and her wisdom today. And in addition to her transitioning

to the ancestral realm, we also learned that over the weekend, George Hardy, who is the last of

the Tuskegee Airmen's World War II combat pilots also died at 100 years old. Lieutenant Colonel George Hardy was one of the original Tuskegee Airmen, and he was the last of the World War II combat pilots from that group,

and he made his transition last Tuesday night.

And his legacy, according to Leon Butler, who's the National President of the Tuskegee Airmen Incorporated,

his legacy is one of

courage, resilience, tremendous skill, and dogged perseverance against racism, prejudice, and other

evils. Mr. Butler goes on to say, we are forever grateful for his sacrifice and will hold dear to

his memory. Now, at 19 years old, Lieutenant Colonel Hardy had become the youngest Tuskegee

fighter pilot, and that was when he

completed his Army Air Corps pilot training program back in 1942. He earned not only his commission

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