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
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.
Word
“Yes, a lot of progressive-minded people are brave enough to be outspoken. Many of us do what we do with finesse. But darling I will find my OWN battles, thank you very much.”
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COMIC: Avoiding Accountability with culturally insensitive propaganda 101
There are particularly insidious brands of memes masquerading as facts about fictionalized Black and Indigenous tribes. Without accountability.
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Comic: Allies, respect that some spaces aren’t for you
I'm talking about white "allies" who celebrate Black people having our own spaces only to swerve well out of their lane and go careening right into ‘em.
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Broken From the Colony
She never wanted to be that — a colony. She wanted a family, sure, but not whatever this was. Rooted and bound to your species. Repeating and repeating an ideal body.
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The Cloud Weaver’s Song
Senait fidgets. Matters of ancient history hold little interest for her. She asks to hear about the Cloud Weavers instead.
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Juneteenth Reflections: Grief Work is Freedom Work
On Juneteenth, part of our inheritance among joy, among rest—can be recognizing grief work as freedom work. It is impossible to avoid my grief and be free.
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Comic: More joy, less trauma please
I am not saying we don’t need anymore narratives about slavery and Anti-Black trauma. But we can also write and produce media that ISN’T about black pain.
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Comic: More joy, less trauma please
I am not saying we don’t need anymore narratives about slavery and Anti-Black trauma. But we can also write and produce media that ISN’T about black pain.
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For Black women and girls who aren’t “autistic enough”
Many Black women, girls, and AFAB folks do not receive austism spectrum diagnoses, if ever, because we are not your typical poster children of autism.
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Separating art from the artist debate misses the mark
The focus shouldn’t be whether or not they can be successfully separated, but rather how an artist's support system allows them to continually cause harm.
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I’m wearing my fat and juicy parts out forever
Fat bodies are worth more than skulking in the shadows. Our bodies are worthy of appreciation and honor. Our bodies are holy in all of their fat glory.
Entertainment
Between Black artists and Black love
Black artists working in the subject of Black folks tirelessly chip away at the residue of grief to ask a question pertinent to liberation: “What can be?”
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
African Traditional Religions prepared me to grieve my mother
I’ve learned through my mother and through Hoodoo, that nothing we love ever truly leaves us. My body has always had her inside of it.
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
Anti-Asian Violence—it runs deeper than hate
The media is quick to identify the names of male victims of anti-Asian violence but Asian women who suffer frequently remain nameless.
Health
For Black women and girls who aren’t “autistic enough”
Many Black women, girls, and AFAB folks do not receive austism spectrum diagnoses, if ever, because we are not your typical poster children of autism.
