Black Life Everywhere
Gentrify Series: A Home for a Home
by Alicia Kamil “I wrote this piece around gentrification in Chicago. This then trigged the idea to... 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
“Love, kissing, and more is so tied to sex and romance that those who are asexual and aromantic have to create a whole new language to describe our experiences.”
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Kendrick Lamar’s Unapologetic Blackness at Super Bowl LIX
Kendrick Lamar dominated the news cycle in 2024 not only with his ongoing feud with Aubrey “Drake” Graham, but also with the announcement that he would be headlining... more
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Making History Visible: The Practice of Remembering
Throughout my work creating collages, and scouring the web for meaningful art, I have found thousands of images of unidentified Black people. These photos of Black... more
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The Unpretty Everyday Practices of Prison Abolition
The man grabs her arm tightly and presses her against the gate, and in someone’s fantasy this, without context, might have been erotic. I want it to be—for her sake,... more
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Resistance Against White Terrorism: Black gun ownership
by Donnie Moreland The first time I held a gun, I was afraid. The scenario was all too awkwardly cinematic to not be memorable. It was on a vacation with my mother to my... more
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Why Black pain will never disarm white supremacy
A nursing book was recalled in 2017 because of the racist way that it discussed pain; how it is felt, how it is interpreted, and how it should be understood by... more
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Black Resistance: Examining the “1st” Free Black Town in the Americas
By Teju Adisa-Farrar When God made mountains He made runaway slaves — Nikki Giovanni, Chasing Utopia We were not supposed to survive. in 2018, AfroPunk published an... more
Featured
Black Resistance: Examining the “1st” Free Black Town in the Americas
By Teju Adisa-Farrar When God made mountains He made runaway slaves — Nikki Giovanni, Chasing Utopia... more
Featured
The Symptoms of Capitalism
By Amber Butts Every day I’m resentful of capitalism. And when I say capitalism, I don’t mean the... more
Featured
‘Sing Sing’ (A24) | First Film Released in Theaters and Prisons Simultaneously
‘Sing Sing’ (2024) starring Oscar-nominated actor Colman Domingo will be the first film... more
Featured
Intergenerational Trauma is Gendered
By Terrence F. Chappell “What your mom did to you, you’re doing to me. You treat me exactly the same... more
Culture
Film Review of ‘Nickel Boys’ by Critic Robert Daniels
This week, as a part of our features series, we have a film review of Nickel Boys, directed by RaMell... more
Education
A New Education System without Police
by Mustafa Ali-Smith, Originally posted on June 30, 2020 As protests continue on both the national and... 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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Philadelphia man living in the Florida Keys found himself on the fast track to a deportation to Jamaica, despite being an American citizen.an
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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 and BYP co-curated a set of episodes featuring young Black Chicagoans Damon and Kiss, guest cohost Tribble and the musician Tasha
Religion
We are more than just good or bad: How the God of the Binary fails Black people
Decolonizing spirituality and learning to survive this world of inequitable structures and gross interpretations of the Word of God.
Gender-and-sexuality
Three Ways to Love Black
Benji Heart explores being Black and Queer and examines the depths of what it means to be "a hard people to love."
Race
Making History Visible: The Practice of Remembering
Throughout my work creating collages, and scouring the web for meaningful art, I have found thousands of images of unidentified Black people. These photos of Black... more
Health
Three Ways to Love Black
Benji Heart explores being Black and Queer and examines the depths of what it means to be "a hard people to love."
