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Black Well-Being & happiness

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Afro-Nostalgia: Feeling Good in Contemporary Black Culture

The past as a building block of a more affirming and hopeful future As early as the eighteenth century, white Americans and Europeans believed that people of African descent could not experience nostalgia.

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Badia Ahad-Legardy
2021
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What Is ‘Black Joy’ and Why Do We Need It in Our Lives? | BBC Ideas

The film Black Panther is a good example of black culture hitting the mainstream. But so often black culture is represented in negative ways in the media. This has to stop, argues author Irenosen Okojie. We need to celebrate black film, art, and literature—what she calls “black joy.”

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2019
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Black Joy: Stories of Resistance, Resilience, and Restoration

A timely collection of deeply personal, uplifting, and powerful essays that celebrate the redemptive strength of Black joy—in the vein of Black Girls Rock, You Are Your Best Thing, and I Really Needed This Today. When Tracey M.

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Tracey Michae’l Lewis-Giggetts
2022
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What ‘Black Joy’ Means and How It Grew

Black joy isn’t about erasing the difficulties of the Black experience, but showing the whole truth by creating balance, says Kleaver Cruz.

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Carlett Spike
2021
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Miracle Jones: The Radical, Revolutionary Resilience of Black Joy | TED

In the face of trauma, happiness is resilience: a revolutionary act of thriving despite all odds, rather than wilting or surrendering.

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2021
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Black History Month and the Celebration of Black Joy

What better way to use Black History Month than as practice for creating a world that demands displays of Black joy and pleasure year-round?

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A. Rochaun Meadows-Fernandez
2020
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Blueprint for the Black Joy Era | Jazmine “Da K.O.S.” Walker and Amber Phillips | TEDxRVA

Washington, D.C. based reproductive justice organizers, political commentators, and media makers, Amber J. Phillips and Jazmine Walker are the co-hosts and creators of the weekly podcast, The Black Joy Mixtape.

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2017
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What Black Joy Means—and Why It’s More Important Than Ever

Where society has told Black people to “be quiet”, or that we’re “too loud”, revelling in joy is an act of resistance. As our feeds become even more inundated with images of trauma, joy can help us heal, too.

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Chante Joseph
2020
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Building Strong Black Women Through Humanity, Joy and Well-Being with Jenee Johnson.

Jenée Johnson, Program Innovation Leader, Mindfulness, Trauma and Racial Healing, Certified Professional Coach and Emotional Intelligence educator, leads the unique effort to bring mindfulness into public health practices and programs through the Trauma Informed Systems of Care Initiative in San...

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Jenée Johnson
2020
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Ericka Hart’s Brooklyn Apartment Is a Celebration of Blackness | House Tours | Apartment Therapy

Ericka Hart—a Sex/Racial/Social Justice Educator, activist, and breast cancer survivor with a Master’s of Education in Human Sexuality—and their partner Ebony Donnley—a writer, performance artist, and audio engineer—have only been living in this rental for a few months, but they’ve filled the...

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2019
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