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Dropouts Down But Minority Communities Still At Stark Disadvantage Huffington Post, December 1, 2010 “Dropout factory” high schools may be on the decline in United States but for minority communities, the good news may not apply. A report released Tuesday by America’s Promise Alliance, shows the nation’s graduation rate went up from 72 to 75 percent […]

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by Tayler Simon In the 2024-2025 school year, more than 4,000 unique titles were banned in the United States. Titles like All Boys Aren’t Blue by George M. Johnson and The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison were among the most challenged books, reflecting a trend of targeting books by Black and/or LGBTQ+ authors. While all […]

A rebuilt home for Black feminist, abolitionist storytelling—created to protect community memory, sustain truth-telling, and expand our archive. CHICAGO, IL (February 26, 2026) — Black Youth Project (BYP) announces the relaunch of its digital platform at a moment when Black media is being systematically eroded—from publications closing without warning to the displacement of Black women […]

by Jenn M. Jackson, PhD Almost a decade ago, I said goodbye to my editing position here at Black Youth Project. I was 33 years old, working on the final edits of my dissertation at the University of Chicago titled “Race, Risks, and Responses: Mapping Black American’s Reactions to Policing in the United States.” My […]

In the United States, police kill over 1,000 and injure more than 51,000 people each year. These figures are already staggering—and likely undercounted by more than half. The violence doesn’t happen in isolation. It’s built into the systems we’re told exist to protect us. And in cities like Atlanta, those systems are expanding. As a […]

  Across this series, people gather in fields, warehouses, studio spaces, and public events, carrying with them the practices that sustain everyday life. Children move between arms and laps, conversations continue while hands adjust weight and fabric, and small gestures — a hand on a shoulder, a shared glance, a phrase worn on a shirt […]

Stop Cop City: The Social Movement Re-defining Community Safety   In the United States, police kill over 1,000 and injure more than 51,000 people each year, with evidence suggesting that these figures could be underreported by as much as 55%. In addition to these numbers being substantially higher than other developed nations, unfortunately, they are […]

Week One: Penelope French Introducing Penelope French — the gypsy soul healer and Soul Empress whose sound continues a long lineage of music shaped by Black struggle, memory, and imagination. French’s work sits at the intersection of storytelling and sonic experimentation, drawing from traditions of soul while bending genre boundaries to create something distinctly her […]

Creative expression did not begin with writing. It began with voice — with stories spoken across rooms, songs carried across distance, rhythms tapped into tabletops and knees when words alone could not hold what needed to be said. Long before notebooks, microphones, or publishing platforms, Black communities were shaping experience into sound and gesture so […]

The Price of Presence: Notes From Atlanta’s Strip Economy Notes From An Urban Feminist A year ago I landed in Atlanta, Georgia without my three children, my husband or community. I arrived with four luggages in tow, and although I considered myself a fully realized feminist whose identity could stand alone, I felt like something […]

My maternal grandmother, Audrie, who was a second mother to me, was my first entrypoint in witnessing mutual aid in practice. She became a widow before the age of 21, followed by a long bout of alcoholism and depression, and had experienced her share of heartbreak. She and my maternal grandfather were two Black Panthers […]