Joy as resistance: Meet Youth Poet Laureate Salome Agbaroji

This year’s National Youth Poet Laureate is a Nigerian-American using her voice to celebrate Blackness.

Salome Agbaroji says amid disheartening moments, she finds joy, celebration and laughter are among the greatest forms of resistance. Abgaroji is originally from Los Angeles and is now a freshman at Harvard University.

She shares her poetry, and her dreams of a future in advocacy, with Here & Now’s Deepa Fernandes.