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
“Apologies are meant to be just one aspect of an attempt at making amends, but when apologies are presented as the sole aspect of what is being offered, they don't really mean much.”
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Apologies that never were and probably never will be
I wonder what might be possible, in terms of healing and clarity, if we all stopped putting any stock in the apologies the empire rarely even gives.
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Comic: We don’t want to learn about our own cultural practices from white people
Far too many colonizers will take a cultural practice from people of color, run with it, water it down, and sell it for $50 per session.
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Van Jones, language and the psuedo memory of national identity
A national cultural identity that is married to a language of national moral pageantry will always be in conflict with liberation.
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Young Americans are against white supremacy even if the president isn’t
Many have condemned President Trump’s refusal to name the violence of white supremacy. But, the fact is: condemnation isn’t enough.
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Asian American Youth support defunding police, investing in Black Futures
Asian Americans must divest from the desire to be in proximity to whiteness and instead cultivate an ethics of care and kinship with Black communities.
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Survivors deserve much more than “just vote, we’ll worry about the abuser(s) later”
Survivors shouldn’t have to choose between which sexual predator becomes the next president. That statement isn’t divisive, it’s fact.
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Survivors deserve much more than “just vote, we’ll worry about the abuser(s) later”
Survivors shouldn’t have to choose between which sexual predator becomes the next president. That statement isn’t divisive, it’s fact.
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Queer desirability politics and its implications on consent
Desirability politics, at its core, is a politic that revolves around patriarchy and idealized masculinity that’s informed by colonial thought and object.
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“Atonement” by Donnie Moreland
He remembered something Minister had said that day: “When you atone, you become at one.” But this was a shame which couldn’t be absolved.
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We must fight for a Black liberation that exists outside of AntiBlack Systems
These institutions gave us Trump. These institutions gave us Jim Crow and sharecropping. Why would we then rely on these same systems to bring real change?
Entertainment
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”.
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
Queer desirability politics and its implications on consent
Desirability politics, at its core, is a politic that revolves around patriarchy and idealized masculinity that’s informed by colonial thought and object.
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.
