What Is Black Joy, and How Is It Connected to Juneteenth? | Everyday Health
By Deron Dalton Nearly a decade ago, between 2013 and 2014, the most recent stage in Black liberation began with the Black Lives Matter hashtag, network, and movement — often mistakenly thought to center on the community seeking justice for Black men who were killed at the hands of police and state-sanctioned violence. Though this […]
7 Black Joymakers You Need to Know | Everyday Health
By Deron Dalton Within the last decade, a movement amplifying Black voices and highlighting visualizations of Black joy has mobilized online and in real life. Largely a response to the perpetuation of images of Black pain and trauma on social media, the glimpses of joy provide a different — and previously lesser seen — view into everyday […]
How the Black Joy Project is helping activists deal | The Daily Dot
By Deron Dalton Black Lives Matter has pushed the national conversation on race—but the trauma and pain behind the fight against systemic racism can weigh heavily on black organizers and the communities they serve. This was the case for Kleaver Cruz, a 27-year-old writer and community organizer at Black Lives Matter: NYC. A few days after Thanksgiving, he […]
How 4 Black Lives Matter activists handle queerness and trans issues | The Daily Dot
By Deron Dalton Black Lives Matter is about far more than just police violence. The network—a growing international organization with 26 local chapters in three countries—faces many misconceptions, co-optation, racist trolls, counter-narrative arguments—and, sometimes, its own communities. And yet, it upholds a mission to be explicitly intersectional, leading to a movement that mobilizes for all black lives and advocates for an array […]