{"658981":{"#nid":"658981","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"What Is Black Joy, and How Is It Connected to Juneteenth?","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.lmc.gatech.edu\/people\/person\/andre-brock\u0022\u003EAndr\u0026eacute; Brock\u003C\/a\u003E, associate professor of media studies in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.lmc.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Literature, Media, and Communication\u003C\/a\u003E, was quoted in the article \u0026quot;What Is Black Joy, and How Is It Connected to Juneteenth?\u0026quot; by\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EEveryday Health\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;on June 16.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAn excerpt:\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cblockquote\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Juneteenth is a moment of joy,\u0026rdquo; says Brock. \u0026ldquo;Yes, it\u0026#39;s celebrating a moment where we found out we were free, but since then, it\u0026#39;s also become \u0026mdash; depending on which neighborhood or city you live in \u0026mdash; it\u0026rsquo;s a picnic, it\u0026#39;s a DJ, it\u0026#39;s kids doing games and contests. It\u0026#39;s cookouts and everything else. It\u0026#39;s not simply breaking the chains every time we get together on Juneteenth. It\u0026#39;s the celebration of us as a community.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"36009","created_gmt":"2022-06-17 16:17:54","changed_gmt":"2022-06-17 16:18:36","author":"cwhittle9","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.everydayhealth.com\/black-health\/what-is-black-joy-and-its-connection-to-juneteenth\/","dateline":{"date":"2022-06-16T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2022-06-16T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"633100":{"id":"633100","type":"image","title":"Andre Brock","body":null,"created":"1582902681","gmt_created":"2020-02-28 15:11:21","changed":"1582902681","gmt_changed":"2020-02-28 15:11:21","alt":"Andre Brock","file":{"fid":"240903","name":"Brock outside Skiles resized.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Brock%20outside%20Skiles%20resized.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Brock%20outside%20Skiles%20resized.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":491869,"path_740":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Brock%20outside%20Skiles%20resized.jpg?itok=7ib74q19"}}},"media_ids":["633100"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"},{"id":"1283","name":"School of Literature, Media, and Communication"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"185171","name":"juneteenth"},{"id":"185199","name":"Black Twitter"},{"id":"184111","name":"black media studies"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}