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Serena Williams: How Black Women Can Close the Pay Gap

By Serena Williams — 2017

Black women are 37 cents behind men in the pay gap—in other words, for every dollar a man makes, black women make 63 cents.

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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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Eat Mangoes Naked: Finding Pleasure Everywhere and Dancing with the Pits!

This book is your traveling pleasure companion. I want to remind you to seek out pleasure and lightly scoop it up! It is also a guide to finding pleasure in all of the difficult places: during illness, at the periodontist, facing our aging and mortality...

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SARK
2025
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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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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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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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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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Healing Racial Trauma: The Road to Resilience

As a child, Sheila Wise Rowe was bused across town to a majority white school, where she experienced the racist lie that one group is superior to all others.

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Sheila Wise Rowe
2025
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Belonging: Overcome Your Inner Critic and Reclaim Your Joy

Accepting ourselves requires less work, less achieving and less doing than one might think. The path to greater happiness, greater contentment, and greater self-love is the basis for Catherine A. Wood’s debut book, Belonging: Overcome Your Inner Critic and Reclaim Your Joy.

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Catherine A. Wood, Emily Joy Rosen (foreword)
2020
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Dr. Maria Sirois and Dr. Randy Kamen: Finding Fulfillment and Joy in Midlife

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Maria Sirois
2017
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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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