Still from Beyoncé's Black is King.(Disney+) We don't envy CBC Arts columnists Amanda Parris, Peter Knegt and Anne T. Donahue having to regularly try and make sense of this strange year with words. It was hard enough just to exist in 2020, let alone publicly reflect on said existence through the many, many words that came via Amanda's Black Light, Peter's Queeries and Anne's Anne-iversaries. We asked each of the columnists to look back at the year (mostly in horror, we assume) and pick their top five editions. Amanda Parris 2020 was a perpetually bleak year, but one site of persistent joy for me arrived in the moments where I was able to utilize my platform to share and amplify critical stories, histories and voices. My favourite editions of Black Light enabled me to do that through interviews, listicles, oral histories and exposing forgotten histories.