“Joy” in Lilah.

Black Joy: Unmasked

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The toil of talking Blackness, tumbling down the narrowest of roads to youthful suicide, lynchings masquerading as private hangings, of taking the bits and pieces of our living, parceling them out for amusement, for entertainment, for late-night tv fodder and buzzworthy hashtags, is exhausting. Being tasked with uncovering the joy for a month out of year full of 52 weeks, 365 days, requires the craftiness of an adept magcian…