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Joy, Michelle Lawrence reminds us...  \n“Although there is no way to avoid the hurt and pain we have experienced...we need to uplift Black joy and insist on more moments of trauma-free Blackness to celebrate ourselves and to heal our hearts, bodies, and souls.”  \nHow will you  \nhonor Black History Month?  \nThe Snowy Day  \nThis book, written and illustrated by Ezra Jack Keats, was the first picture book with an African American protagonist to win a major children’s award, the Caldecott Medal, in 1963.  \nThe Black Joy Project  \nThis online movement, created by Kleaver Cruz, asks the public to post \\#BlackJoy moments on social media as a “source of healing [and] community building.”  \nHair Love  \nThis 7-minute animated short film created by Matthew Cherry highlights a relationship between a Black father, Steven, and his daughter, Zuri, as he learns to style his daughter’s  \nhair. 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