These lines appear on the first page of Daniel Black’s “Black on Black: On Our Resilience and Brilliance in America:”
“I write because we hurt. I write because some pain can’t be described. It can only be felt in the marrow of a story or the lyrics of a song.”
Black’s new collection of essays dig deep into Blackness, history and racial tension in this country, while simultaneously serving as a powerful call to action and a celebration of Black culture.
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