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Introduction-The McCoy Game

· The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Mbalia, Kwame (Ed.). Black Boy Joy. Delacorte Press, 2021. Hardcover.

· In the Introduction, Kwame Mbalia dislikes watching the news.

· He remembers watching television with his parents and how the news was always about a local shooting, a death, or a tragedy that nine times out of ten befell Black individuals.

· When Mbalia is happy, he says that he cries whether he is happy for himself, his friends, or a stranger.

· He wants his readers to be happy.

· He tells how he asked some Black author friends to create Black Boy Joy.

· The term was created by Danielle Young in 2016.

· It has come to mean the excitement and fun of boys growing up “in and out of the hood” (2).

· These are stories that deserve to be on the news.

· He tells readers to be...

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