BYP x AirGo
BYP x AIRGO
Black Youth Project joins forces with Chicago podcast, AIRGO, for a year-long series featuring our... more
Politics
New social media checks for visa applicants show the dangerous transformation of surveillance in the US
Editor’s Note: This month at BYP, we will be exploring Black Liberation & Organizing, and we are... more
Word
“I spent years pouring into relationships and refusing to allow the people I cared about to pour into me in the same fashion. ”
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Black women, our closeted emotional needs won’t get met
Black women have been forced to carry the weight of the world on our shoulders without complaint or acknowledgment, lest we get labeled emotional, irrational, and more notably, angry.
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“E pluribus unum”: Federalism is a reactionary structure built on anti-Blackness
Federalism as a structure of government is a reactionary class structure of racial and gendered political domination.
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Sometimes, I give gentrifiers the wrong directions when they get lost
Editor’s Note: This essay contains descriptions of anti-Black and anti-queer violence. Sometimes, I give white people the wrong directions when they get lost. For... more
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Don’t get too excited about tech advances. Many are designed to leave Black people behind
Editor’s Note: This month at BYP, we will be exploring Black Liberation & Organizing, and we are interested in publishing works that address these topics. How do... more
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Richard Akuson: the ‘A Nasty Boy’ editor talks the future of his queer fashion magazine and life as an asylum seeker in the U.S.
While Richard carefully navigated the legal confines of Nigeria's Anti-Gay Acts to create content, legal knowledge and international recognition couldn't protect him. A homophobic attack led him to leave Nigeria.
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#UnderHisEye and the erasure of Black women in the carceral system
The dystopian fictive state that white women wish to protect themselves from, that fall of modern social structures, is a knife in the back to the lived horror of countless Black women.
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#UnderHisEye and the erasure of Black women in the carceral system
The dystopian fictive state that white women wish to protect themselves from, that fall of modern social structures, is a knife in the back to the lived horror of countless Black women.
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Steve McQueen’s ‘Bear’ is an exploration of intimacies among Black men
'Bear' interrogates the soul of Black men in proximity to one another and asks what occurs in the spaces between us when we quarrel, love, and harm one another.
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There’s no such thing as a “progressive prosecutor” in a system designed to criminalize Blackness
Editor’s Note: This month at BYP, we will be exploring Black Liberation & Organizing, and we are... more
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How heterosexual Black men project the psycho-sexual traumas of the plantation onto our queer brethren
The burdens of our shame have befallen the bodies of queer Black men, those whose histories we share and who are owed for the horror of our deeds.
Entertainment
Anti-Blackness knows no borders: How nation-centric understandings of Blackness fails us
Dalvin Aboagye Near the end of May, the more melanin-infused parts of the internet were set ablaze by a... more
Education
“Who taught you to love yourself?”: How political education moved me to leave academia
By Deria Matthews “The university was not created to save my life. The university is not about the... more
Videos
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According to Vox, eight players from the Ole Miss men’s basketball program knelt during the national anthem in protest of a rally on campus in support of... more
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According to the Miami Herald, a 50-year-old man from Philadelphia who lives in the Florida Keys found himself on the fast track to a deportation to Jamaica, despite... more
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According to USA Today, an independent autopsy commissioned by the Bradford family shows that Emantic Bradford Jr. was shot from behind three times by police during the... more
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Border Patrol fires tear gas, chases asylum seekers and closes the border to keep them out of the US
According to Buzzfeed News, late Sunday evening, Border Patrol agents temporarily closed the San Ysidro Port of Entry, one of the most used border crossings in the... more
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The Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights (RFK) Foundation, led by Kerry Kennedy, started a month-long mission to bail out hundreds of women and juveniles at Rikers Island.... more
BYP x AirGo
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Black Youth Project joins forces with Chicago podcast, AIRGO, for a year-long series featuring our favorite Black academics and activists. Stay tuned for a new episode... more
Religion
We are more than just good or bad: How the God of the Binary fails Black people
By Itoro Udofia I grew up under the tutelage of The God of the Binary. He was forever in opposition to a ubiquitous outside force. He was the Good opposed to Evil. The... more
Gender-and-sexuality
In and out of the closet: Rejecting the heteronormative binary of “coming out”
As grating as “Old Town Road” and its endless stream of remixes has become, there was always something about Lil Nas X that I just couldn’t help... more
Race
Sometimes, I give gentrifiers the wrong directions when they get lost
Editor’s Note: This essay contains descriptions of anti-Black and anti-queer violence. Sometimes, I give white people the wrong directions when they get lost. For... more
Health
The ghost of the racist “father of modern gynecology” is still killing Black infants & child-bearers
By Naomi Alexis The so-called “father of modern gynecology”, James Marion Sims, trafficked in enslaved Black women, likely impregnating them through rape, in... more
