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
“Blackballing Kap for kneeling is just one part of their problem, and it might not even be the worst thing that the league has ever done.”
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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 of “Black capitalism” when he signed a deal with the NFL.... more
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We shouldn’t be surprised by Jay-Z’s NFL move. He’s always been a capitalist & this is what capitalism looks like
By Brittani McNeill By now, we’ve all seen the news about Jay-Z’s new partnership with the NFL. The rap mogul, through a deal between the league and his company Roc... more
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We need LGBTQ history in schools because the queerness of Black icons has always been obscured
It's imperative that we intentionally draw these connections and highlight them for our children so that these truths are not as hidden from them as they were from us.
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How the Coalition to End Money Bond is working to help reform pretrial practices in Illinois
The Coalition to End Money Bond, a group of thirteen organizations committed to cash bonds ending in Illinois, has provided a platform for people that have been affected by cash bonds and pretrial incarceration to speak out.
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Black men – we need to take the racist online harassment of Black women more seriously
It costs nothing to believe, to trust, to comment in support of, to inquire amicably, to shun the slanderers of our Black family.
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I don’t know what my grief looks like outside of social pressures to perform it in acceptable ways
My heroes are never buried when they die, at least not at first. As soon as I hear the news, I borrow their face from their still chilling body to post alongside a... more
Featured
I don’t know what my grief looks like outside of social pressures to perform it in acceptable ways
My heroes are never buried when they die, at least not at first. As soon as I hear the news, I borrow... more
Featured
The trans child in me still needs to feel wanted
Since I was a kid, I have subconsciously believed that I am not worthy of love, belonging, or all the things I need and want, and it began when I had only just learned to walk.
Featured
Poverty appropriation & the moral depravity of a society where elite education has the highest stakes
Editor’s Note: This month at BYP, we will be exploring Education & Schooling, and we are... more
Featured
How theology based on a “one true god” cuts Black people off from necessary indigenous practices
By DJ Ferguson My mother, no stranger to emotional blackmail, had no hesitation in using it on behalf of... more
Entertainment
Anti-Blackness knows no borders: How nation-centric understandings of Blackness fails us
Dalvin Aboagye Near the end of May, the more melanin-infused parts of the internet were set ablaze by a... more
Education
“Who taught you to love yourself?”: How political education moved me to leave academia
By Deria Matthews “The university was not created to save my life. The university is not about the... 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
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
We shouldn’t be surprised by Jay-Z’s NFL move. He’s always been a capitalist & this is what capitalism looks like
By Brittani McNeill By now, we’ve all seen the news about Jay-Z’s new partnership with the NFL. The rap mogul, through a deal between the league and his company Roc... more
Health
The Black body remembers our traumas even when we try to forget
By Najya A. Williams Throughout my childhood, my mom always scheduled early morning dental appointments to accommodate the remarkably busy lives we both led. Once I was... more
