BYP x AirGo
AirGo x BYP with Barbara Ransby
Black Youth Project has joined forces with AirGo for a year-long #BYPSpotlight series, featuring our... more
Politics
Feature: Grassroots organization BYP100 uses “radical inclusion” to combat racial injustice
Editor’s Note: This month at BYP, we will be exploring Black Liberation & Organizing, and we are... more
Word
“My father wasn’t equipped for a conversation about anything more than the shame of masturbation—a shame which I'm sure he associated with the act just as I came to do.”
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Black men need space to talk about their own sexual pleasure outside of domination
Editor’s Note: This Sexual Health and Awareness month, we will be exploring related issues at BYP, and we are interested in publishing works that address these topics.... more
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How Black cis het men’s relationship to our bodies contributes to our violence against Black transgender women
Our measure of self worth is often in conjunction with in what capacity we can use our penis and the ability of the world to see us use it.
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Black people don’t need to be “twice as good”: Unpacking the communal depression of watching Serena lose
As far as I can tell, no one really knows who first stated that Black people have to work twice as hard and be twice as good to be as successful as white people. I’d... more
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Make sure you affirm and support risk-takers in public, not in private with microappreciations
Microappreciations hurt, especially when you really needed someone to stand in solidarity with you in public. What good is showing solidarity privately when you failed to do so for a harm that occurred publicly?
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Learning to love myself despite the struggles of dating and sex as a diabetic Black woman
Editor’s Note: This Sexual Health and Awareness month, we will be exploring related issues at BYP, and we are interested in publishing works that address these topics.... more
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Shame and fear prevent Black teens from going to the gynecologist
Black girls (and those assumed to be girls) are often afraid to seek medical help when it comes to sexual health or reproductive care because of the stigma surrounding their sexuality.
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Shame and fear prevent Black teens from going to the gynecologist
Black girls (and those assumed to be girls) are often afraid to seek medical help when it comes to sexual health or reproductive care because of the stigma surrounding their sexuality.
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Social stigma and jokes help to create misinformation about herpes
Unfortunately, most people aren’t in a place where they can say the name of one of the most common STIs without laughter, disgust, or both—herpes.
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Why Black LGBTQ+ people get upset when our most prominent people show up with white partners
Editor’s Note: This Sexual Health and Awareness month, we will be exploring related issues at BYP, and... more
Featured
From John Henry to James Evans: Black men married to hard labor in the white American imagination
From the auction block to the train tracks, we are made men—even in its most limited projection—only by our potentiality with a tool.
Entertainment
Kaepernick isn’t the only reason working with the NFL is making a deal with the devil
By Stanley Fritz Last week, rap legend and newly minted billionaire Jay-Z showed us the limits and flaws... more
Education
Being a Black educator doesn’t mean you aren’t teaching anti-Blackness
Editor’s Note: This month at BYP, we will be exploring Education & Schooling, and we are... 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 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
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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
Black men need space to talk about their own sexual pleasure outside of domination
Editor’s Note: This Sexual Health and Awareness month, we will be exploring related issues at BYP, and we are interested in publishing works that address these topics.... more
Race
Why Black LGBTQ+ people get upset when our most prominent people show up with white partners
Editor’s Note: This Sexual Health and Awareness month, we will be exploring related issues at BYP, and we are interested in publishing works that address these topics.... more
Health
Learning to love myself despite the struggles of dating and sex as a diabetic Black woman
Editor’s Note: This Sexual Health and Awareness month, we will be exploring related issues at BYP, and we are interested in publishing works that address these topics.... more
