BYP x AirGo
Airgo x BYP with Janae Bonsu
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.
Politics
How the myth that all Black parents give kids “the talk” about police is used to silence resistance
My mother told me that I should always fight for what I believe in, whether it brings me personal harm or not.
Word
“Very early in childhood development, we can see a type of possessiveness, more forceful submission of genital performance and sexual expectedness from child to parent. ”
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Protecting Black children should never mean re-injuring them, owning them, or denying their sexual autonomy
Considering the terrors which have shaped the meanings of Black childhood, by centering ourselves—our paternal desires, demands, egoism—in our children's stories, we only further breed the dread by becoming a part of it.
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Looking to the Blues as record of Black folks’ loss and longing
If we can look to the Blues as record, what we come to understand is how a people under persistent duress come to understand life and its meanings.
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These 2 films reveal the powerful ways Black queer women find pleasure despite heteronormative violence
Our avenues for joy and love are expansive even in the face of the violently compulsive heteronormativity.
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Virginity and hymen myths must be challenged to protect Black teens like Deyjah Harris
We absolutely must prioritize combating the hypersexualization of Black children and teens, and the misogyny that allows Black parents to fancy themselves as owners of any part of their daughters—especially their hymen.
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Elizabeth Warren has been my Senator since 2013. I don’t recognize the woman on the campaign trail.
Having been her constituent for several years, I’ve spent the months since she announced her presidential bid both struggling to recognize the woman on the campaign trail and asking myself why I never had the privilege to know this woman as my senator.
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The Obamas keep attacking “cancel culture” because they are scared of being held accountable
Where these critiques of "cancel culture" are truly revealing is in how they validate a stereotype of “wokeness” that undermines all deviance, defiance, and resistance work.
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The Obamas keep attacking “cancel culture” because they are scared of being held accountable
Where these critiques of "cancel culture" are truly revealing is in how they validate a stereotype of “wokeness” that undermines all deviance, defiance, and resistance work.
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The debate over whether we can enjoy Kanye West’s music is frustrating, but necessary
With the weight of that responsibility on our backs and ringing in our ears, it can be difficult to navigate enjoying art that doesn’t support or uplift the Black community.
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I wish Black folks could mourn in our own little bubble
I want those of us still taking on our earthly forms to have access to a level of vulnerability in our communal grief that white supremacy has robbed us of.
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My parents’ storybook romance gave me unrealistic expectations for (Black) love in the digital age
Black love had gone digital, and I was still analog, wondering why my parents love story wasn't hereditary.
Entertainment
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... 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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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
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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
These 2 films reveal the powerful ways Black queer women find pleasure despite heteronormative violence
Our avenues for joy and love are expansive even in the face of the violently compulsive heteronormativity.
Race
How the myth that all Black parents give kids “the talk” about police is used to silence resistance
My mother told me that I should always fight for what I believe in, whether it brings me personal harm or not.
Health
Black youth suicide is increasing. We can’t wait to create space to talk about mental health
“I think we still struggle with identifying who we are,” Winful said in an interview with BYP.
