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BYP 100 Feature: Black People in New York City Are Not Safe
On February 1, 1968, two Black Memphis sanitation workers were crushed to death when the compactor on their truck was accidentally triggered. It was the last in a series of events that would eventually lead the city’s majority Black sanitation workforce to go on strike, demanding safer work conditions, better wages, and union recognition. What […]
Black Youth Project 100 Leads National Day of Action For Black Women & Girls
On Thursday, May 21, The Black Youth Project 100 (BYP100) will lead a national day of action to call for an end to the epidemic of state violence being waged against Black women and girls by the police and other government entities. BYP100 will join with Ferguson Action and Black Lives Matter, in addition to […]
BYP 100’s Charlene Carruthers Named Arcus Leadership Fellow
Charlene Carruthers, National Director of BYP 100, has been named an Arcus Leadership Fellow. Charlene joins twelve other winners chosen for their social justice leadership. The Arcus Fellowship, previously known as the Arcus LGBT Leadership Initiative, supports emerging leaders as they build their professional careers and support the LGTBQ community at large. Read more about the […]
Black Youth Project 100 Debuts Video Highlighting Impact of Low-Wage Jobs on the Black Community
CHICAGO –The Black Youth Project 100 (BYP100) highlights the impact of fast food jobs and other low wage occupations on Black youth in a new video released yesterday morning. The video, titled Black Work Matters: The Fight for $15, calls sharp attention to the experiences of young Black people who are disproportionately trapped in fast food […]
The Police Killed More Than 100 People In March
In total, 290 people have been killed during police encounters since the beginning of 2015. The tally kept by the website Killed By Police is much higher than the vastly incomplete FBI statistics. For comparison, the UK has only seen 52 police killings since 1900, reports Shaun King. Yes, since 1900. As March concludes #PhillipWhite is […]
The Oldest Black Boarding School Sends Nearly 100 Percent of Grads to College
From the Atlantic: The Piney Woods Country Life School is America’s largest historically black boarding school, and one of the few remaining, with a sprawling campus of pine trees and rolling farmland just 20 miles south of Jackson. It opened in 1909 as the vision of an educated African American man from St. Louis who […]
Report: 100% of Black Women Interviewed in STEM Study Experienced Gender and Racial Bias
Black women in the study recalled being regularly mistaken for janitors and were constantly worried about the “angry black female” stereotype.
Video:100 years of black hairstyles in less than 60 seconds
This video shows the range of hairstyles worn by black women over the last century. We need to bring some of this styles back. H/T: Buzzfeed
From Ferguson to Palestine: Dream Defenders, BYP100, Black Lives Matter, and Ferguson Activists Travel to Palestine
Charlene Carruthers, national director for BYP100, joined other activists on a trip to Palestine and Israel. Organized by the Dream Defenders, the trip also included representatives from Black Lives Matter, Ferguson/Hands Up United and Justice League NYC as well as journalist Marc Lamont Hill, poet Aja Monet, and USC student Maytha Alhassen.
Event: Black Holidaze — A BYP100 Kwanzaa
BYP100 Chicago Chapter invites you to celebrate with us!
Video: BYP100’s Jessica Pierce talks activism, youth-led movements
BYP100 member and national co-chair Jessica Pierce recently appeared on PBS with a couple of other young activists. Pierce, who has been involved in activism since her days at University of California at Santa Cruz, talked the importance of youth-led protests, and why she insist of being part of them.
BYP100 stages ‘die-in’ in response to Mike Brown grand jury decision
Members of the Black Youth Project 100 gathered outside of Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s office Tuesday to protest the decision by a Missouri grand jury to not charge Officer Darren Wilson who shot and killed an unarmed teen in August.