Welcome Back, Lori! Let's get into it!

Lori returns from her family vacation and we catch up, barely, on all the things! We start off discussing travel, one of our favorite topics, and the joy and challenges of family dynamics....then we roll into so many topics. Here are some highlights:Political Parlour: United States Debt ceiling. Could someone smarter than us come on the show and explain this to us? We put a pin on the train derailments, environmental disasters, and other indicators of the United States' infrastructure and world wide collapse. We highlight some candidates we're rooting for, running for Off-Year Elections, in the state of Virginia: 20:30: Makya Little: https://www.makyalittle.com/ 39:10: Dashad Cooper: https://www.c-ville.com/who-is-dashad-cooperWE  travel back to California and throw our support behind: 44:00: Lourin Hubbard: https://lourinhubbard.com/At the 52:45, Lori then congratulates her friend, Ice-T, @FINALLEVEL for his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame! We really appreciate all your hard work, friend ethos, originality, music and so much more! Congratulations, Ice-T! You are an inspiration! Next, we highlight more inspiring Black Americans in American History, starting with 57:00 Pierre Caliste Landry: https://www.azavar.com/en/blog/black-history-spotlight-pierre-caliste-landryLucien Victor Alexis: https://www.creolegen.org/2014/05/05/the-negro-einstein/Biddy Mason: https://www.aclunc.org/sites/goldchains/explore/biddy-mason.htmlLori is going to see if she can go by Biddy's memorial in Los Angeles and get some video or pics there! At the 1:14, we touch upon an exhibit Lisa attended the Oakland Museum of California, in October 2021 called: MOTHERSHIP Voyage into Afrofuturism. Check out the slide show, and this podcast recording, at our youtube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/@RooseveltWarfieldMedia/videosWe celebrate #OctaviaButler and @hulu 's interpretation of her story, Kindred: https://www.fxnetworks.com/shows/kindred. Be sure to check out The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens to learn more about Octavia Butler, who bequeathed her entire works to them: https://huntington.org/exhibition/octavia-e-butler-telling-my-storieshttps://huntington.org/verso/mining-archive-octavia-e-butler#:~:text=here%20to%20enlarge.-,The%20Octavia%20E.,share%20and%20discuss%20their%20discoveries.Lori is reading Butler's, Parable of the Sower, which fort a fictional future that is eerily similar to many present day storiesNext, we share who our future guests are, including Irene Sardanis and Mark Feathers,  and FINALLY, We invite our mom friends to come in and share their children's birth stories as part of celebrating Moms in May! Thank you for joining us on our Media Journey!  Support the showThe Parlour with Lori and Lisa comes to you with our takes on current events, politics, human interest stories, all things close to our hearts, and so much MORE! Thank you for following our media journey and be sure to look for us as we roll out in all the social platforms. #SlowMedia