Featured

LAPD Officer Wins $1.2 Million Settlement after Accusing Department of Racial Harassment

Nelson Mandela Hospitalized for Lung Infection

Children Rally in Downtown Chicago for Immigration Reform

Chief Keef’s Participation in Online Anti-Violence Campaign Stirs Controversy

Chicago Teachers Union, Supporters Gearing Up for Massive Protest Today Against School Closures

Towson University’s ‘White Student Union’ to Begin Patrolling Campus to Fight ‘Black Crime Wave’

Ebony Magazine Examines the Struggles of Gun Violence Survivors in Chicago

Rhymes & Reasons Interviews Jasson Perez About the Hip Hop Songs that Changed His Life

Chicago Public School Closings Will Cost Taxpayers $1 Billion

A$AP Rocky Addresses Homophobia in Hip Hop: “It’s Crazy that This is Still an Issue”

Former Classmates of Hadiya Pendleton Launch Anti-Violence Movement ‘Project Orange Tree’

Supreme Court Will Hear a Second Affirmative Action Case

CAMPAIGN: Upload A Video Letting Rick Ross Know that RAPE Lyrics will NOT be Tolerated

Oral Arguments Begin in Prop 8 Supreme Court Case

Tomorrow, The Ascension Begins

Rick Ross Raps About Committing Date Rape in New Song

Should We Raise Age for Charging Young People as Adults?

Rahm Emanuel Says Chicago School Closings Are Worth It to Save Children from Failing Schools

And While We’re at It…#BowDown

George Zimmerman’s Brother Compares Trayvon Martin to Alleged Baby-Killer De’Marquise Elkins

Why Little Black Children Will Spend Yet Another Generation Dealing With Private Companies to Access Healthcare

Chicago Public Schools Announce 54 School Closures, Nearly 30,000 Students Affected

Black Masculinity in the Age of Barack Obama & Chief Keef

Chicago Nightclub Shooting: What Was 13 Year-old Rapper Lil’ Mouse Doing There?

President Obama to Designate Harriet Tubman Park a National Monument

‘Things Fall Apart’ Author Chinua Achebe Dead at 82

Sorry Jada, the Short Answer is “No”

REPORT: Half of People Shot by Police are Mentally Ill

NYPD Whistleblowers Say Stop and Frisk Abuse Was Propelled by Quota System; Called ‘Rats’ by Fellow Officers

Detroit Students Organize March to Protest School-to-Prison Pipeline

BYP on FB

Black Youth Project

Join Our Newsletter

Subscribe to our newsletter today!

You can get all of our newest stories and updates on BYP research in your inbox.