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
“The criminal justice system isn’t simply a system corrupted by individual actors. The inequality is embedded in the apparatus itself.”
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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 interested in publishing works that address these topics. How do... 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.
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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
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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
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‘Pose’ is a masterful piece of queer historical fiction
Through its amazing storytelling, Pose provides us with a medium to experience a range of emotions: joy, rage, sadness. It also allows the audience to flourish in an intellectual capacity by incorporating historical facts and narratives into its fictional plot.
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It took a global pandemic, but the original spirit of Pride is finally being honored
The corporatization of Pride (also known as Pink Capitalism) has long been an issue that led to my disillusionment with most Pride events years ago.
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It took a global pandemic, but the original spirit of Pride is finally being honored
The corporatization of Pride (also known as Pink Capitalism) has long been an issue that led to my disillusionment with most Pride events years ago.
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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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Nobody is checking for your Interracial Relationship
I’m begging y’all to handle whatever trauma led you to this pattern of thinking, and have yourselves a happy, healthy, interracial relationship.
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COMIC: Satanic Panic: The Perpetual Return
If Satan exists, he must be a Capricorn because he stays BUSY. Satan truly is the curse that will never go away.
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
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
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
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
