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Kofi Siriboe, best known for his work on OWN’s Queen Sugar as Ralph Angel recently released a documentary focusing on Black mental health. The short documentary, entitled “WTF is Mental Health?” functions as a primer on what mental health is and what some of the stigmas attached to it are. As Siriboe tells The Huffington Post, […]

A year after its creation, the city of South Fulton, Georgia has elected African American women at the top offices of all government departments. Now the fifth largest city in the state, South Fulton has a Black city public defender (Viveca Famber Powell), female chief of police (Sheila Rogers), court administrator (Lakesiya Cofield), chief judge (Tiffany […]

“Black Men Arrested At Starbucks Said They Were There For 2 Minutes Before 911 Call” — The Huffington Post The headlines blaze, sear into your consciousness, don’t let up, suffocate. Eventually they begin to blend together, but each individually shapes you into a better activist, or so you once hoped. Hope is why you spread […]

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. Collaborating with the […]

“Black Identity Extremist” is the new “The Black Panthers are the biggest threat to peace and security in America,” according to a FBI report attained by Foreign Policy warning that police attacks on Black people could result in violence against police officers. The report was released on August 3rd, only a week and a few […]

Black and Latinx students in New York public schools only make up 27% and 41% of the population, respectively. However, data shows that they represent 99% of students handcuffed by NYPD school safety agents in 2016. The New York Civil Liberties Union found that 259 out of 262 “child in crisis” incidents involved Black or Latinx students, according […]

Young, Black leaders in Cincinnati, Oh.  and Jackson, Miss. secured meaningful victories in mayoral primary races this week. 

Two Black women are filing a lawsuit against their FOX News for “top-down racial harassment.” [Water is also wet]. Tichaona Brown, a payroll manager, and Tabrese Wright, a payroll coordinator, are suing Judith Slater, the company’s longtime comptroller who was fired just last week, Fox News, and 21st Century Fox, according to The New York Daily News.

A Black family in Delano, Minnesota has been forced to leave their brand new dream home less than three months after moving in. On Sunday evening, Latanza Douglas, her husband and their three foster children returned home to see that it had been broken into and covered in racist graffiti and threatening messages. 

Many of us make New Year’s resolutions to read a book a week or once per month. And, if you are anything like me, you want those books to come from Black authors. Now, a company called Noir Reads is making meeting those goals all the more possible by delivering books from the Black Diaspora […]

Unfortunately, we should now accept that Donald Trump will be President of the United States come January 20, 2017 (over a month later I’m still experiencing some disbelief in this truth). But what I won’t accept are his disingenuous attempts to be inclusive and to work for Black people.

A Black transgender man was stabbed after doing something kind on Christmas night: offering his seat to a woman on the subway. Ijan DaVonte Jarrett, 44, was riding the subway home from work in Bayonne around 11pm when he offered his seat to a woman who was riding with her cousin. The woman, Stephanie Pazmino (30), refused […]