In an age of racial reckoning, the country’s oppression of Black people is getting renewed attention, and the experience of being Black in America might appear to be almost universally grim.
Badia Ahad-Legardy of Flossmoor wants to complicate that view. In her new book “Afro-Nostalgia: Feeling Good in Contemporary Black Culture,” Ahad-Legardy proposes a different outlook on Black life, focusing especially on the great pleasures and joys that often are not seen in in…
