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Reparations will never be given — it’s time we protect the everyday people who take them
*A note from our editor Sherronda J. Brown: January is Human Trafficking Prevention Month, and our theme at Black Youth Project is Human Trafficking and Slavery. We are interested in publishing works that address these topics and the things surrounding them.* I am not the greatest at math. I scored somewhere between the 50-60th percentile […]
Here’s a list of 20 of the dopest Black comics set to takeover 2018. You’re welcome!
By Terrence Sage The following is a list of comics either ongoing or releasing this year. It is focused on either Black creative teams penning the adventures of superheroes, or comics that star Black superheroes in a prominent light!
Netflix’s ‘Bright’ is copaganda, plain and simple
By Ronnie Boyd Over the holidays, I rushed to watch Netflix’s new original film, Bright, starring the always scrumptious (at least, to me) Will Smith. I went into the film wanting to like it, but knowing there was a high likelihood that I wouldn’t. Even with this awareness, I wasn’t prepared for just how much […]
The Black church isn’t one-dimensional either: How Gullah-Geechee people subvert Christianity to retain Black history
By Ari Colston-Johnson To many, the Black Church calls to mind horror stories of cisheteropatriarchy and theologies shaped by colonialism, white supremacy, and respectability politics. But coming of age in the Gullah-Geechee African Methodist Episcopal (AME) tradition, the Black Church was a foundation for my radical politics, a space for community and Afrocentric syncretism, and […]
Black joy is resistance: Why we need a movement to balance Black triumph with trials
By Kleaver Cruz Two years ago, I woke up wishing I could go back to sleep and wake up to a more just and Black-loving world. I wanted to relieve myself of the pain that surfaces after watching too many news accounts of law enforcement ending the lives of Black people in the U.S., or […]
A 2018 calendar and watch list for Black moviegoers and film buffs
Nearing the end of each year, I like to compile a list of upcoming films that look intriguing to me or that I have been anticipating for months, or even years. This year, I tailored my list to be extensive and hella Black, just for y’all. Each of these feature a predominantly Black cast, Black […]
For Christians, Christmas shouldn’t just be a celebration, but a time to recommit to Black liberation
By Law Ware Typically, Christmas is thought of as a time of hopeful expectation. In fact, Advent, the four Sundays before Christmas that many Christian churches use to celebrate the Nativity, began on Sunday, December 3, 2017, and that very notion, hopeful expectation, is a conceptual underpinning of the season.
Where were internet access crusaders when Facebook stopped Korryn Gaines from streaming cops murdering her?
On Thursday, the Federal Communications Commission finally delivered its long-expected and devastating death knell to Obama-era Net Neutrality rules—policies supposedly put in place to ensure the internet remained on a level playing field with access equity. The repeal is likely to further impede the work of digital organizers for social justice and exacerbate economic disparities […]
To the women who bent my reflection: How internalized misogyny creates toxic relationships among women
by Ashley Nkadi This essay contains a brief discussion of sexual violence To the women who turned a gala honoring my work as an activist into a conversation about how “inappropriately” I was dressed, or rather, how “inappropriately” my full-length dress held my curves: You are no friend. To the women who were even quicker […]
Rediscovering the Black Girl Magic in literature that was snuffed out of my childhood
By Jessica Dulaney All my life I have believed in the magic of literature, but only a few years ago did I witness one of its most incredible tricks – to help me see myself. I am a Black girl who spent a childhood with little access to literature by or about Black girls. I […]
Comic: When white people think ancestry is easy
by JeCorey Holder The information regarding ancestry of African Americans is spotty at best. It will be a while before any of us can trace our roots to find out what families or tribes we came from. And that’s if we find out at all. “Ancestry” by JeCorey Holder
Papa John’s is the Abigail Fisher of pizza: Maybe we *should* be the reason they lose?
By Ashley Nkadi Do you remember Abigail Fisher? If you are drawing a blank, allow me to refresh your memory: Abigail Fisher is the white woman whose college rejection was heard around the world, mainly because she basically grabbed the world’s biggest megaphone and wailed into it like a toddler. When Fisher was denied entry […]