Guest Post

Twitter is deleting white supremacists’ verification badges, but not their rhetoric

“Prison was good for me”: How the state manipulates barely surviving its brutality into sanctuary

Comic: When white people think ancestry is easy

From the Million Woman March to #Metoo: How movements created by and for Black women are appropriated

She ain’t white girl pregnant: Black, queer & expecting in an anti-Black, anti-queer world

Papa John’s is the Abigail Fisher of pizza: Maybe we *should* be the reason they lose?

We need to talk about gay men using body types to conform to heteronormative gender roles

What Kevin Spacey’s “apology” says about how whiteness operates in marginalized spaces

Who needs white awards for Black Excellence? No, I’m not “just happy to be nominated”

We need to stop telling Black children to “sit down and shut up”

In the midst of #metoo stories, we must also ask “What’s next?”

Three ways Black veganism challenges white supremacy (unlike conventional veganism)

In the battle of racism vs. sexism, Black women always lose

How the state uses “police morale” to divert from the violence inherent to policing

Comic: Anti-Black feelings about natural hair don’t just affect Black women

The violent fat antagonism in Michael Blackson’s terrible “joke” about sexual assault claims

What being Lincoln in a school play taught me about efforts to whitewash Black children in schooling

Young Thug’s threat to Jerrika Karlae is why so many abuse victims don’t “just leave”

I live in a sanctuary city, and it’s a safe haven for white liberal anti-Blackness

Academia’s role in legitimizing conservative hate speech

The Black church can engage more Black millennials by bringing politics back into the pulpit

Learning to love myself enough to f*ck raw while Black and HIV positive

What I learned about embracing my Blackest self from Baltimore’s IDGAF attitude

Throwing off the yoke of respectability politics in single Black mamahood

The anti-Blackness of believing there’s no support for queerness in the hood

Stop expecting Black children to grow up straight & cisgender

The NFL boycott is steeped in misogynoir and I’m not participating

Why “privilege” is counter-productive social justice jargon

All good things: A word from BYP Managing Editor Jenn M. Jackson on transitioning roles

If Colin Kaepernick is for Black lives, he won’t go back to the NFL

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