Why Black Love Might Be the Most Important Things w/ EbonyJanice

Lurie Breaks It Down

Women's Empowerment Network

History, News, Society & Culture, Culture, Politics

5.0 • 610 Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2026

⏱️ 34 minutes

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EbonyJanice explores black love as a world-building project—not just romantic connection, but a political and spiritual act of resistance. The conversation touches on Baltimore's success in reducing violence through care-based approaches, the importance of local organizing over nationalized movements, and why loving each other might be the most radical thing we can do. A caller shares a moving testimony about how investing love in community came back when he needed it most. Throughout, there's an insistence that we're not just surviving—we're positioned to thrive. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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0:00.0	Look, we break it down, down, down, down, down.
0:05.0	She break it down, down, down, down, down, down.
0:11.7	She got to message for the people, a brilliant mind and a clean soul.
0:17.3	She's standing up to the evil in making sure that we all grow strong enough
0:22.5	To break these change we're in
0:24.2	They keep us in this painful condition
0:26.9	She gave us truth and division
0:29.5	That's why we listen
0:31.3	She break it down, down, down, down, down
0:34.6	Down, down
0:35.6	She break it down, down, down, down. She break it down, down, down, down, down, down.
0:41.3	Black love is not just two people deciding to be in love.
0:48.3	Black love is two people building a world that the outside is actually actively trying to prevent.
0:53.3	I want to talk about Black Love as a political world building project,
0:56.0	not just a personal project, as something that is deeply spiritual and political
1:01.0	and sovereign and necessary and essential, but it is a world because Black love
1:06.0	in the fullness of a full Black Love cosmology actually impacts everything and everyone. When two black people decide to love each other in spite and despite the fact that there are systems
1:15.6	and institutions that have been built strategically to keep them from being together, there is something
1:19.6	very revolutionary about that, but they're also rejoining or healing something that these institutions
1:25.6	have attempted to keep us from, which is a black mind
1:28.4	that has a black eternal kind of ongoing consequences. And those consequences benefit us, but those
1:36.3	consequences also speak to what has happened. So there's Sankofa. There's looking back at what
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