On May 6, 2024, the University of Delaware welcomed photographers Adrienne Waheed and St. Clair Detrick-Jules to the Black Table Talks speaker series, hosted by the Department of Africana Studies. With a focus on the intersection between Black Joy and the politics of hair through the medium and lens of photography, Waheed and Detrick-Jules shared their respective book projects, Black Joy and Resistance and My Beautiful Black Hair. Waheed is a photographer, photo editor, and book author based in Brooklyn, New York, and Berkeley, California. Detrick-Jules is an award-winning filmmaker, photographer, author, activist, and public speaker.