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Interview: Kiese Laymon’s ‘Heavy’ reminds us that Blackness can be abundant in a world trying to make us disappear

Kiese puts into words what so many of us have always felt, but never been unable to articulate, or think through, or talk through with the nakedness and honesty it truly requires.

by Sherronda J. Brown

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