Joy and Pain: A Story of Black Life and Liberation in Five Albums

A poignant account of how the carceral state shapes daily life for young Black people-and how Black Americans resist, find joy, and cultivate new visions for the future.

At the Southern California Library-a community organization and an archive of radical and progressive movements-the author meets a young man, Marley. In telling Marley's story, Damien M. Sojoyner depicts the overwhelming nature of Black precarity in the twenty‑first century through the lenses of housing, education, health ...