Jonece Starr Dunigan

The news is out! Black Joy has expanded beyond your inbox 📧! WE NOW HAVE OUR OWN SOCIAL MEDIA ACCOUNTS! Follow @BlackJoyReckon on Twitter, Instagram & TikTok to experience more melanin magic ✨️

@aallyahpatrice Of course I did! You helped bring this together! Thanks for inviting us! Just FYI, I dont use Twitter for real but hit me up on Instagram (same tag as here) or Facebook (Look for Starr D Journalist...of we aint following each other already! 🤣)

@StarrDunigan, you didn't have to include me in the main image, but YOU did. As a Clarksdale native, thank you for your coverage and for coming to town to spend the weekend with us. nj.com/blackjoy/2025/…

@DaricCott Trying to keep the faith is hard today. Disappointed but not surprised to see him leading

I’m staying up but I just cut a sitcom on instead agonizing over this election. Trump wins my life as a Black trans woman will suck way more & at this point it’s nothing I can do about it so clinging to pockets of joy at least.

@AmyYurkanin @ChallenStephens @aremkus1 @JohnHammontree Oh that's exciting Amy! Congrats on your move :)

I'd like to thank everybody at Al.com for a great 9+ years. It's been a honor to work with such a smart and talented team of reporters and editors. Special shout outs to my editors there, @ChallenStephens @aremkus1 and @JohnHammontree. I'll miss all of you!

I'm really excited to announce that, starting Monday, I'll be covering the South as a reporter for ProPublica's regional newsroom. I am a huge fan of their work, so this is a dream job. Especially because I get to stay in Birmingham and continuing reporting on the region.

@DaricCott VERY cutesy!!! Come on professor! 💙

@Dr4equity @BlackJoyReckon Thank you for sharing and talking with me! Will definetly keep your number for future stories!

Such a joy talking with @StarrDunigan of @BlackJoyReckon which is a great resource! Make sure you follow on Twitter, Instagram & TikTok Win With Black Women's Jotaka Eaddy makes space for Black women to have a voice in politics reckon.news/black-joy/2024…

@DaricCott That's beautiful Daric! I'm glad you took the leap. You never know where it will go!

@KailSovl I'm so sorry :( our fur babies are family aren't they? Hope your dog had a pleasant 11 years

My dog that I’ve had for 11 years passed away today

@MaestraOmo_Oba @KarenAttiah And there's no harm in microwaveable meals! Heard they are life savers during depressive states :) good luck to you!

@KarenAttiah Thank you, Sis. I’m trying.❤️

What are y’all stress-eating right now?

@lee_hedgepeth Congrats to you! Happy Marriage!

On Friday, I married Tricia McMullen. She's smart, fierce, caring, bold, and loving, and I'm grateful to begin the rest of our lives together. Love is the greatest tool we have in shaping the world into a more just place, and I'm so lucky to have found so much of it in my life.

@shaTIRED Listen....I just turned it off

y’all we are fucked 😭

I'm at that point of a story where I am looking for sources and there are so many people to ask for their wisdom! It's like playing eeny, meeny, miny, moe in a room full of Black academic geniuses and I feel guilty because I can't choose them all!!

THIS MAKES ME EVER MORE EXCITED FOR THE MOVIE NOW LOL!

Whew they aint lying. This is a journalist dream: to focus on one subject for multiple months in a way that will create an impact. It's hard to do in an industry starving for resources.

This Memorial Day weekend, she's helping a Black town reopen a pool that's been in disarray for years. It's here where she'll be providing scholarships to 300 youth & seniors who want free swim lessons! Dive into Danielle's legacy of saving Black lives: reckon.news/black-joy/2024…

Just last week, the @CDCgov reported a 28% increase in Black drownings. But I know a Florida sis who is taking care of that problem through her nonprofit Alma Swim Foundation and her business @_almaocean 🏊🏾‍♀️

@rlnave @laneclemons You should watch it. Prepare for your blood to boil though

@laneclemons @StarrDunigan I didn’t

Folks are losing their minds over this

@rlnave @laneclemons That's sounds interesting but have either of yall seen this? I was disgusted netflix.com/us/title/81477…

@laneclemons @StarrDunigan I, too, was a scout. High key failed miserably at the keep “myself physically strong, mentally awake and morally straight” part tho

🎶 It starts with sorry 🎶😅

Ole Miss the Day James Meredith came to integrate the school… and Ole Miss today.

I would snatch my daughter up so fast...