Read excerpts from “Where Is Black Life Lived?” and ‘The Study of Human Life,’ by Joshua Bennett, winner of a 2021 Whiting Award for poetry and nonfiction.

In what I am calling the weather, anti-blackness is pervasive as climate. The weather necessitates changeability and improvisation; it is the atmospheric condition of time and place; it produces new ecologies. —Christina Sharpe, The Weather  and as…