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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.

by Robert Randolph, Jr., Ph.D. This essay contains discussions of sexual violence, lynching, and the serial murder of queer Black men.  Writer’s Note: The Deputy Editor invited me to write about this subject and I have carried these men, the named and unnamed in my head for weeks. I blew the deadline time and time […]

This essay briefly mentions sexual and reproductive violences. A group of Trump-worshipping, MAGA hat-wearing white boys from Covington Catholic High School surrounded and taunted an Indigenous elder with the racist, xenophobic, and nationalist chant, “Build the wall!” last week. But somehow the mainstream media has framed the boys as innocent victims, despite the fact that […]

After a harrowing ordeal posted to social media, a Saudi Arabian teen, 18-year-old Rahaf Mohammad Alqun Qunun will be heading to Australia following a stay in Thailand while she flees her family. Qunun said she left her family when they were on a holiday to Kuwait, according to Sky News. The teen fled and alleged to […]

Israel has arrested 5 Israeli Yeshiva high school students for the fatal stoning of Aisha Rabi, a 48-year old Palestinian woman in the West Bank last year. The fatal attacks on Palestinian civillians by Israeli settlers have increased ahead of the national elections in April.

By Salaam Green Protest birthed out of the American south often sets the pace for revolutionary and radical campaigns for justice. While I was teaching creative drama with a group of fourth graders outside of Birmingham, Alabama, a hotbed for civil rights and the home of many justice movements, an eager fourth grader asked me […]

By Gloria O. The recent death of McKenzie Adams, a nine-year-old from Alabama who endured months of racist bullying before dying via suicide, really hurt me. It immediately evoked memories of bullying in my own childhood, reminding me of the sad fact that the world can make such little progress in so much time. Anti-blackness, […]

According to NPR, Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos is set to eliminate a guidance provided by the Obama administration which was designed to reduce racial discrimination in the disciplinary action taken by schools.

The U.S. Supreme Court upheld victories in lower courts by Planned Parenthood after Republican-led states sought to strip the organization of Medicaid funding following the court’s move further to the right with the confirmation of Justice Kavanaugh.

I enjoy the fall season. All year long, I look forward to the cooler weather, the back-to-school hustle, autumnal harvest excursions, and the flurry of family and friends that the holidays bring. But between football season, Halloween, Native American Heritage Month, and Thanksgiving, fall is also the time of year that Indigenous people are catapulted […]

According to Buzzfeed News, late Sunday evening, Border Patrol agents temporarily closed the San Ysidro Port of Entry, one of the most used border crossings in the entire world, to prevent Central American asylum seekers from getting into the United States after they had evaded Mexican police, crossed a river and went down a side […]

As the California wildfires rage on, it has been revealed that some ultra-rich residents have insurance policies through AIG which amount to a private firefighting department. AIG’s Private Client Group runs its Wildfire Protection Unit as a private service for the super-rich, and according to VICE 42% of the Forbes list of the 400 richest Americans utilize […]