There has been a systemic denial of Black memory and dispossession of narrative autonomy including the natural coping process of nostalgia. According to Badia Ahad-Legardy, “as early as the eighteenth century, there existed a biomedical belief by white Americans and Europeans that people of African descent could not experience nostalgia. As a result, Black lives have been predominately narrated through historical scenes of slavery and oppression. As such, there is a missing archive of the positive historical scenes and memories from which the African-descended could draw upon.”