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
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
“Many years earlier, I’d learned about segregation in the very school I was then standing in and now they were telling me that I couldn’t use the actual entrance to the building.”
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How my experience as a Black man working with children was tainted by racism
When I try to imagine myself as a teacher, all I can see is how those white people reacted to my presence near their children, and I never want to feel those eyes on me again.
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The white writer’s misimagination of Black characters in science fiction
When left in the hands of white writers, science fiction will ensure that we remain in the periphery of the story, an accessory to its finish line.
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When does defending one’s reputation become a ploy to avoid addressing faults?
I’ve begun to fear that the time I spend trying to convince people that I am good could instead be used actually doing good, and is not.
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Reclaiming memory as a Black father and son in the face of cultural and racial traumas
The future tense is the fear of every father, but for Black fathers, that fear of memory is weighed with another debt — the uncertainty of our expiration.
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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
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Used in a relentless pursuit of the elusive middle class, side hustle culture is killing Black folx
Editor’s Note: This month at BYP, we will be exploring Black Liberation & Organizing, and we are interested in publishing works that address these topics. How do... more
Featured
Used in a relentless pursuit of the elusive middle class, side hustle culture is killing Black folx
Editor’s Note: This month at BYP, we will be exploring Black Liberation & Organizing, and we are... more
Featured
White supremacy is where my PTSD and intrusive thoughts intersect
The problem isn’t how I engage whiteness in my capacity as an organizer or as an intentionally visible Black person. It’s whiteness period.
Featured
Faced with commercialization, the Black Punk community turns to its past for a guide to keep resisting
By Monika Estrella Negra The majority of the Black punks I have talked to were drawn to (or got lost in)... more
Featured
Keeping Black history will always be necessary, but it takes a toll
Even in a future where Black liberation is a reality, we cannot afford to forget about the things and the people who got us there.
Entertainment
Between Black artists and Black love
Black artists working in the subject of Black folks tirelessly chip away at the residue of grief to ask a question pertinent to liberation: “What can be?”
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
African Traditional Religions prepared me to grieve my mother
I’ve learned through my mother and through Hoodoo, that nothing we love ever truly leaves us. My body has always had her inside of it.
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
Faced with commercialization, the Black Punk community turns to its past for a guide to keep resisting
By Monika Estrella Negra The majority of the Black punks I have talked to were drawn to (or got lost in) the Punk scene in order to escape the rigidity and... 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
