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By J.R. Yussuf I began prioritizing my mental health shortly after graduating college in 2012. I still felt as though I had to keep it a secret because going to see a therapist was seen as bizarre. But I went anyway because with each passing day, life increasingly felt like a punishment and soon sleep […]

This essay contains discussion of the sexual exploitation of enslaved and incarcerated Afro-Latinx womxn, and mentions r/pe by Briana L. Ureña Ravelo Like with many other seemingly promising new shows, I and so many others, especially Afro-Latinxs, were excited for the debut of Netflix’s Siempre Bruja. Even in the midst of this excitement, there was […]

New York Knicks Center Enes Kanter skipped this week’s game in London, claiming that he could potentially be killed over his criticisms of Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Kanter, who is Turkish, no longer wants to leave the United States or Canada to play basketball because of this fear, telling the New York Times, “The N.B.A. […]

According to the Washington Post, the Saudis are engaged in a family feud over power, which likely led to the ordered killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. The origins of this feud are located in January 2015, at the bedside of a dying King Abdullah. As David Ignatius relates, a Saudi who was at the hospital […]

Samuel Little, a boxer who traveled the nation abusing and killing women, is now saying he killed at least 90 women from 1970 to 2005. Little’s victims were always women sex workers and drug addicts. In his own words, he targeted “women that wouldn’t be missed.”

By Gabrielle Noel The legal system was never built with Black queer people in mind. This system assigns victimhood, or refuses it, according to social biases, and society’s perception of who is more likely to be a victim or more credible thus affects who is allowed to receive justice. When it comes to sexual harassment, […]

A two-week run of terror has finally ended after police apprehended 35-year-old Juan David Ortiz, an intel supervisor for the United States Border Patrol and charged him with the murders of 4 women who were all sex workers. Police were tipped off when a fifth would-be victim escaped from Ortiz at a Texas gas station.

by Tiffany Hobbs  I hope Jesus doesn’t look like the white man on the wall. That flowy-locked iteration of the Messiah they wanted Black people to believe in would find his alabaster skin colored with surprise as Ms. Aretha Franklin entered the gates and demanded payment—her heavenly reward—upfront. Her blessings must be plentiful, as she […]

Ja’Loni Amor Owens In 2016, arguably the peak of activist apparel’s popularity, a number of businesses began to sell t-shirts, crewnecks, tote bags, buttons, pins and stickers with variations of the following: “I am not my ancestors; you can catch these hands”. It is understandable why variations of this phrase caught on so quickly. The […]

On Monday morning, singer-songwriter R. Kelly released a new song track titled “I Admit“, in which he addresses multiple accusations about running a sex cult, child molestation, and his financial grievances. Despite the title, the entire track acts more of a medium for R. Kelly to complain about personal straits than an admission of sexual […]

As Black Youth Project previously reported, Black girls and women are the primary targets of a spate of kidnappings and murders concerning residents of the South Side of Chicago. Because many residents do not feel like the Chicago Police Department is doing enough, in order to combat this, residents are starting many initiatives on their own […]

A number of Black girls and women have gone missing in Chicago. Families are pleading for answers to the disappearances and a local activist community is taking note.