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A Harvard University research team led by scientists at the school’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health conducted randomized surveys of households in Puerto Rico about their experiences during and after Hurricane Maria. From those surveys, researches concluded that somewhere around 4,645 “excess deaths” are related to the hurricane.

By Mark Matlock The possibility of weed legalization can be exciting to young people like me. Especially since our country’s current policies regarding weed have increased discrimination already fueled by the War on Drugs. But excitement can make us forget that being able to consume weed doesn’t get rid of the overt anti-Blackness that comes […]

Seven prisoners at the Lee Correctional Institution in Bishopville, South Carolina are dead following what is being described as a mass brawl. Seventeen were also injured following the melee that began around 7:15 pm Sunday night, and the facility was not secured until around eight hours later according to reports from Buzzfeed. The South Carolina […]

Black mothers and Black babies, who often literally struggle to remain alive in the U.S., are miracles. Educator and journalist Linda Villarossa’s recent investigative report “Why America’s Black Mothers and Babies Are in a Life-or-Death Crisis,” both beautifully and hauntingly details these challenges in illuminating ways. For Black women,  structural, social and psychic trauma often shrouds reproductive justice. However, doulas, trained healthcare […]

By Cosette Hampton Last Tuesday night, an officer of the University of Chicago Police Department (UCPD) shot 4th year student Charles Thomas, who was having a mental health crisis. For those familiar with the University’s conflicting statements on safe spaces, trigger warnings and free speech, it should come as no surprise that even students are […]

Kathryn Rice, head of the Concerned Citizens for Cityhood of South DeKalb Inc. is leading a movement to turn the area known as “South DeKalb” into its own freestanding city. If successful, Greenhaven would become the second largest city in Georgia, trailing only Atlanta, and it would be 87 percent Black, which dwarfs Atlanta’s percentage […]

Symbols often communicate histories, connections, aspirations, and the kinds of juxtapositions that remind people of where they have been as they work to get where they are going. In this spirit, Montpelier High School in Montpelier, Vermont offered a symbol of support to the Black students at the majority white school with a 350-student population. […]

*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.* A few weeks ago, my boyfriend and I decided to watch a trashy horror […]

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 […]

“CopStop isn’t just for me. It’s for the whole community,” 17-year-old George Hofstetter told The Root recently in a video segment. Hofstetter added that he wants his little brother “to grow up in a world where he doesn’t have to worry about being on the news as an African American child being slain.” The Black […]

Arguing for improved sustenance options in America seems less than first-world. However food and water, the very substances that fuel us, remain reproductive and environmental justice issues. Food and water quality matter because they affect people as a whole, but especially people of color and those in the socio-economic margins. The specific instances vary. Environmental […]

Black and Brown students should not learn about themselves and their histories only in terms of oppression, as ancillary laborers in colonial tales, or as afterthoughts or tokens. These students should not first learn globalized human stories in college. Education leaders in one northeast state are seeking to address this issue, recently agreeing on a […]