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
“Abolition, in its historical form against slavery and in the current form against policing and prisons, has always been about redirecting community faith beyond the systems”
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Christian complacency has no place in Black liberation
No longer can Christian leaders remain complacent while their congregants battle through racial fatigue and targeted trauma.
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The price of radical concession
When we look closer, Kaepernick's kneel is a symbol of concession. The phrase "defund the police" has a similar atmosphere of concession around it.
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The God Shop, Part 3
“Pastor, I’ll kill you where you stand."
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The legacy of Christian Abolitionism
The fact of the matter is, Jesus wasn't a cop — so why should we act like cops with community members in Jesus' name?
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Comic: You Chose Your Christian God, Now Let Us Chill With Ours
Christians are too afraid to learn the basics of African spirituality and just go right ahead and associate it with the Bible’s Favorite Villain: Satan.
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The God Shop, Part 2
Wilis looked out at the dense wall of trees, surrounding them, writhing like hollow ghosts. He wasn’t afraid. Just aware. Something was watching them.
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The God Shop, Part 2
Wilis looked out at the dense wall of trees, surrounding them, writhing like hollow ghosts. He wasn’t afraid. Just aware. Something was watching them.
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The God Shop, Part 1
An officer discovered the bodies of James Jackson and Willis Thurman in the Tacoma River, but their companion, Pastor Earl Thurman, was missing.
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The Child and The Question Asker, a short story
I asked for one child and now I had two. This one needed milk. I had milk. She needed love and I had love. I admired her for knowing and for taking.
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Inland, a short story
He closed his eyes, took a deep breath of ecstasy, and then at once, with her blood in his mouth, began to remember that he lived inland.
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
Christian complacency has no place in Black liberation
No longer can Christian leaders remain complacent while their congregants battle through racial fatigue and targeted trauma.
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.
