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The Black Youth Project is a platform that highlights the voices and ideas of Black millennials. Through knowledge, voice, and action, we work to empower and uplift the lived experiences of young Black Americans today.

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i found a watch and some liquor in the backseat

The Body: A Photo Series by Imani

Black dissociation is a requirement of capitalism

Reimaging consent, for Black cis-het men, in a world where touch can kill

My refusal to grant white people space is petty and satisfying

Police-Free schools are necessary, as is abolishing the white supremacist state they are rooted in

Comic: The cishet obsession with children’s genitals is really weird, and transphobic

“Allyship fatigue” is an insult to Black folks who never get to rest

Our calls to action against anti-Black state violence cannot be ableist

The myth of “progress” helps to obscure the truth—we are still marching for civil rights

American “heroism” in times of crisis highlights just how disposable we are to the state

Comic: Porny fan art is okay, but marginalized redesigns are apparently not

When Black folks astral project to create order out of disorder

Violating stay-at-home orders directly harms Disabled folks, but what else is new?

For gay men in Nigeria, Grindr’s screenshot deactivation is double-edged

Comic: Men are well aware of why feminism is needed, they just refuse to admit it

Black Talk by Donnie Moreland

Testing HydroxyChloroquine on Black COVID-19 patients is more medical racism

PCOS and Intersex: A Case for Solidarity Against The Binary

Black conspiracy and skepticism persist because we believe the evidence of our experience

How nonprofits gaslight you into the same self-sacrificing work as capitalist corporations

Is COVID-19 a crisis within a crisis for Black women?

How my “functionality” kept others from seeing the severity of my depression

The Five Signs of a Great (Virtual) Black Therapist

I love fashion, but—as a fat woman—it doesn’t always love me back

Reminders and affirmations to help you through quarantine

Now is an opportunity for Black folks to reimagine what constitutes loss

Comic: Stop mocking accessibility and mobility tools for the disabled and elderly

The siblings of disabled youth are committed to building more accessible worlds

I’ll always be the “angry” and “unreasonable” Black student when I call out racism on my campus

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