In 2014, Gregory Hill, a 30 year old Black man, was shot three times and killed by police in his Florida garage after complaints of loud music. To add insult to injury, last week, a federal jury awarded his family a $4 verdict in their civil case.
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 Josie Pickens I first met my good friend—my sister—Hadeel through another mutual friend some years ago. Around that time, I was researching Black American towns destroyed by White vigilantes, and who were often aided by local and national governments.  She was a shorty like me, of five feet and a few inches. Wild, […]
Chicago’s plans to build a $95 million police training compound in West Garfield Park has created a fierce community campaign, #NoCopAcademy. Due to protestors’ disruption of Tuesday’s city council meeting, the vote on the funding measure for the police academy has been postponed.
On April 29, a white woman called the police on a Black family for using a charcoal grill at Lake Merritt in Oakland, California. A fellow Oakland resident, Michelle Snider, recorded the incident and accused the unidentified white woman of harassing the family because they are Black. It sparked national conversations about racism. Police came to the […]
Despite Civil Rights groups denouncing a proposed “Blue Lives Matter” bill, the Protect and Serve Act of 2018 has come one step closer to becoming a law. Late last week, the House of Representatives passed this bill with a total of 382 votes against a sparse 35 nays. Over the last two years, multiple bills […]
There is Joy and then there is joy. It may seem like Joy only liked you as a child, but it’s not really her fault that she visits less and less now that you are older. She can survive better that way. This world is out to kill her, to stamp her out. And the […]
From labor strikes in West Virginia to 6-day walkouts in Arizona, teachers across America are staging protests to demand higher salaries and new classroom material. In Puerto Rico, a U.S. territory, thousands of teachers have been protesting the government’s plan to close down 300 schools as they are recovering from Hurricanes Irma and Maria in […]
Editor’s Note:Â May is Mental Health Awareness Month and National Masturbation Month. This is also the month that we celebrate Mother’s Day. At BYP, we will be exploring these topics alongside the theme of Imagination and the Arts, and we are interested in publishing works that address these topics and the things surrounding them. By Antoine […]
In Louisiana, approximately 37,000 elderly and disabled people are at risk of losing their homes due to Medicaid cuts because of insufficient state funds. The state budget is $500 million dollars short. Notices of eviction started going out today to many in nursing homes. The Lousiana eviction has started a looming panic for the tens […]
I just knew that things would change for me the day I closed on my book deal. In my mind, this moment was going to be bigger than anything I had done in my 32 years of life, and I wanted to be aware and very present. I wanted to rejoice like all the viral […]
Jordan Peele is not resting on his laurels following the breakout success of the critically acclaimed Get Out. The writer/director announced via Twitter that his new film Us will be released on March 15th, 2019. pic.twitter.com/6j43s9YC8e — Jordan Peele (@JordanPeele) May 9, 2018
