BYP x AirGo
Airgo x BYP with Jawanza Malone
Black Youth Project has joined forces with AirGo for a year-long #BYPSpotlight series, featuring our... more
Politics
Police-Free schools are necessary, as is abolishing the white supremacist state they are rooted in
Police-free schools isn't separate from eradicating the system that brought legitimacy to having a police presence on campus in the first place.
Word
“She had never seen any of the ghosts, only heard or sensed them. And she never wanted to see one. Seeing a ghost, she thought, would surely be her end.”
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Living With Ghosts, a short story
She had always believed that ghosts only came to eat you at night, but now she knew that there was nothing to stop ghosts from clawing at her in daylight.
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Comic: “Underpopulation” is not an issue you can blame on queer people. Trust me.
Apparently, it needs to be said that people being LGBTQ+ is NOT a dastardly trick that is going to diminish our numbers. Queer folks can and do reproduce.
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Exclusive Interview: Black Queer Artist HAILES details her new EP and creating music during a pandemic
This has been the most expansive time for me. The process has allowed me to sit and tell myself “okay you said you wanted to write music, now’s the time”.
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How Black people mourn the loss of a Superhero
Black people across the world brought our biggest, Blackest dreams to the theater to watch Chadwick become the superhero we subconsciously knew we needed.
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Crawl: A Short Story
You can still smell the lives here, the auntie boiling water for her clothes, the child playing with pieces of wood and naming them friends.
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Beloved Black sitcoms and what we can learn from nostalgia
The thing about nostalgia, though, is that it can cloud our vision and often even skews our perspective on the reality of what we actually experienced.
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Beloved Black sitcoms and what we can learn from nostalgia
The thing about nostalgia, though, is that it can cloud our vision and often even skews our perspective on the reality of what we actually experienced.
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How the imagination of the ‘Lovecraft Country’ writer’s room failed us
There is magic and mystery in Lovecraft Country, but what the writers have imagined with it has turned out to be disappointing and irresponsible.
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Trauma doesn’t turn you into a bad person
I don’t know if I’m always strong, but I know that every time I have survived trauma it was because I took the power to heal.
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Is your crowdfunding support colorist? Probably.
If we don’t interrogate the ways we re-inforce colorism, Trumpism can die tomorrow and we’ll still have a world that prioritizes light skinned tears.
Entertainment
Exclusive Interview: Hari Ziyad reveals the cover of their memoir
Black Boy Out of Time explores my experiences as a Black, queer, non-binary person raised in a Hindu and Muslim family in Cleveland, Ohio.
Education
Virtual affinity groups are supporting Black students during a pandemic
Though I have yet to step foot on campus, witnessing the advocacy and support affinity groups offer students solidifies my confidence in feeling prepared.
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 has joined forces with AirGo for a year-long #BYPSpotlight series, featuring our favorite Black academics and activists. Jawanza is the Executive... more
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Janae Bonsu talks about learning stillness and finding peace, imagining new interventions when gender violence needs to be addressed, her cheese game, and much more.
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Black Youth Project has joined forces with AirGo for a year-long #BYPSpotlight series, featuring our favorite Black academics and activists. This month’s #BYPSpotlight... more
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Black Youth Project has joined forces with AirGo for a year-long #BYPSpotlight series, featuring our favorite Black academics and activists. First up is Barbara... more
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AirGo is back for our second episode in front of a live audience! This time, we’re excited to launch our #BYPSpotlight, a collaboration with Black Youth Project, a... more
Religion
How I use ancestor veneration to navigate my Mother’s Death
I offer this ritual as an invitation and witnessing to all who are grieving their mothers, dead and alive.
Gender-and-sexuality
How I used my names as a vehicle for my non-binary identity exploration
I realized I was non-binary, so I made some changes. I chopped off the first two letters of my given name, and then I chopped off all my hair.
Race
Black dissociation is a requirement of capitalism
The dissociation required for me to see myself as separate from my body, and to see my body as antagonistic of my identity, is a requirement of capitalism.
Health
Trauma doesn’t turn you into a bad person
I don’t know if I’m always strong, but I know that every time I have survived trauma it was because I took the power to heal.
