Black Joy! Joyful Books You Need to Read Before the End of Black History Month

Whitney Alese
ZORA
Published in
5 min readFeb 1, 2022

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Photo: Autumn Goodman on Unsplash

Something about this Black History Month calls for more than the same cycle of stories. After two solid years of a pandemic, during that time experiencing the hope of a racial reckoning followed by hope dashed through politics as usual and empty gestures, to talk about just Black pain and trauma during it just doesn’t feel right.

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Whitney Alese
ZORA
Writer for

Whitney Alese is an award winning writer & creator featured in WIRED Magazine, I-D Magazine, NBC, & Chalkboard Magazine.