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Judge says a bar refusing service to Trump supporters is not “outrageous” conduct
In early April 2018, a New York City judge ruled in favor of a bar, The Happiest Hour, which had been taken to court for throwing out Trump supporters. The judge stated that while the law protects against religious discrimination, it says nothing on political discrimination.
Education Dept declaws task force dedicated to investigating for profit college abuses
The Devos era at the United States Department of Education is continuing the trend of Trump era rollbacks by marginalizing, reassigning or refocusing a team previously dedicated to the investigation of abuses by for-profit colleges, according to the New York Times. This move serves to kill ongoing or preliminary investigations into former employers of Devos’ top […]
Black women have been organizing against R. Kelly since long before his #MeToo reckoning
by Josie Pickens This essay contains discussion of sexual abuse against Black girls and women. To watch what has been a decades-long movement by Black women to boycott and end the career of singer, songwriter, and serial sexual predator R. Kelly finally gain national attention, significant momentum, and media coverage is surreal, to say the […]
UT Austin ‘Restrictive Masculinity’ program under pressure by administration after right-wing criticism
The University of Texas at Austin is attempting to address the limiting nature of the societal construct of masculinity. The University of Texas’ Counseling and Mental Health Center is collaborating with the Voices Against Violence initiative to create campus-wide dialogue about how to create a more healthy version of masculinity. According to their website, “MasculinUT […]
Iconic Black men are falling from grace. Good.
Editor’s Note: This essay contains discussion of domestic violence, sexual assault, and mentions of r/pe Eldridge Cleaver was a predator—a night stalker. He practiced on “black girls in the ghetto” where he knew the crimes would not be investigated before he eventually ventured across the tracks to methodically rape white women. “Rape was an insurrectionary […]
Black woman violently arrested at Waffle House draws calls for protests
25 year old Chikesia Clemons was violently arrested at an Alabama Waffle House after allegedly disputing being charged extra for plastic utensils. One of the Waffle House employees called the police on Clemons after she asked for the number to the corporate office, but Waffle House and the Saraland Police Department refuse to release the […]
Black women are the most likely to be unarmed when killed by police, according to study
Editor’s Note: April is Black Women’s History Month. Throughout this month, Black Youth Project is celebrating Black women. This month is also National Minority Health Month, Autism Awareness Month, Sexual Assault Awareness Month, Child Abuse Prevention Month. We are interested in publishing works that address these topics and the things surrounding them. A study from […]
Michigan governor to end Flint’s water bottle program despite skepticism from residents
Michigan Governor Rick Synder just told the media the State of Michigan will stop giving free bottled water to the city of Flint on Friday, according to reports from The New York Times. The decision was criticized by city officials, mostly because Flint is still dealing with a water crisis that came to light in […]
Black Separatists do not belong on SPLC’s list of hate groups
by Kamali Senior Last December, a man and his son were arrested for unlawful possession of firearms in Dallas, Texas. The FBI raided their home, the son and the father were separated, and two assault rifles were seized by the authorities, along with a book titled Negroes with Guns. This is the result of being […]
Most of the Trump inauguration protesters freed by Justice Department, 59 still facing felony charges
As punishment for protesting Donald Trump’s 2017 Presidential Inauguration in January, 196 people faced up to sixty years in prison each, accused of various charges ranging from breaking windows, throwing rocks and destroying a government vehicle. The United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Colombia originally pushed jurors to convict defendants based solely on […]
Border Patrol agents ‘systematically destroy food and water aid for migrants’
According to reports from two Tuscon, Arizona based humanitarian groups, the United States Border Patrol is systematically destroying food and water supplies which have been designated for migrant aid in an attempt to punish those who cross into the country from Mexico. From March 2012 to December 2015, in an 800 square mile patch of […]
Serena Williams’ powerful Vogue interview on love & parenting highlights the dangers facing Black mothers
The positive pieces: Serena Williams sounds purposeful, peaceful and in love with life in the February 2018 Vogue cover article. The world’s most dynamic athlete chronicled visions that became her reality. Last September, she and husband Alexis Ohanian, Reddit co-founder, became the proud parents of a beautiful baby girl named Alexis Olympia Ohanian Jr. Yet, amidst […]