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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Giving Gentrifiers the Wrong Directions
Editor’s Note: This essay contains descriptions of anti-Black and anti-queer violence. Sometimes, I give white people the wrong directions when they get lost. For... more
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Dealing with Politically Different Family this Holiday
By Jordie Davies This holiday season, many of us will return home to our families, who, even though they love us very much and we love them, may hold different political... more
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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 Ross. The review, by the Chicago-based Associate Editor at Roger... more
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Forbidden Laughter: The History of Laughing Barrels
By Sherronda J. Brown Seems like every year I learn some new factoid about how plantations operated during the time of chattel slavery of African peoples in the... more
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A New Education System without Police
by Mustafa Ali-Smith, Originally posted on June 30, 2020 As protests continue on both the national and global scale, widespread call-to-actions ramp up. Dismantling,... more
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Can Freedom Schools Fill Educational Gaps for Black Students?
By Quintessa Williams Originally Published: October, 2nd 2024 In 2022, when Southern red states followed Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s restrictions on teaching Black... more
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Can Freedom Schools Fill Educational Gaps for Black Students?
By Quintessa Williams Originally Published: October, 2nd 2024 In 2022, when Southern red states followed... more
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Bless, a poem by E’mon Lauren
Chicago, a recipe we’ll fight for. a reason to call our parents back, our rents depend on it. the rage, the rants, the raid.
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Change the Name
Change the Name Cai Thomas - student activists and educators campaigned to change the name of a park from a slaveholder to an abolitionist.
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We were Transformed, but was the World? Reflecting on a Decade of Black-led Movement
The Black Lives Matter era re-shaped a generation’s understanding of Black identity and politics. Now, a new chapter of Black political organization is needed to win the transformative change we envisioned.
Culture
Afrofuturist Animations
Check out the imaginative AfroFuturist Artwork by Chicago Artist Bryson Scott centering Black life in the future.
Education
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
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
A New Education System without Police
by Mustafa Ali-Smith, Originally posted on June 30, 2020 As protests continue on both the national and global scale, widespread call-to-actions ramp up. Dismantling,... 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."
