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School shooter Nikolas Cruz charged with 17 counts of premeditated murder for FL massacre
On Valentine’s Day, 19-year-old Nikolas Cruz regenerated an all too rapidly returning national grief cycle. The South Florida man stormed into Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School with a semi-automatic AR-15 rifle and executed 17 people. By early Thursday morning, Cruz was booked into a Broward County jail and charged with 17 counts of premeditated murder. […]
For Black people who avoid mental health treatment for reasons other than our “culture” or fear of malpractice
*Editor’s Note: March is National Disabilities Month and our themes at Black Youth Project are Ableism & Physical and Mental Health. We are interested in publishing works that address these topics and the things surrounding them. Content Warning: rape, mental health* “… mad methodology resists rote positivism and deﬁes the cult of objectivity; it listens for […]
Rethinking and retooling the “wife school” people always expect Black women to attend
by Josie Pickens Recently, singer Ciara caused some controversy when she retweeted a sermon from Pastor John Gray of Houston’s Lakewood Church, in which Gray warns single women that they need to learn to walk in the “spirit of a wife” instead of the “spirit of a girlfriend” in order to be chosen as a […]
Waiting for Wakanda: Black joy on film as epic resistance
*A note from our Deputy Editor: The themes at Black Youth Project during the month of February are Black Joy and Black Love. It is also Teen Dating Violence Awareness Month. We are interested in publishing works that address these topics, the connections thereof, and the things surrounding them* Since the birth of film, we […]
‘Black Lightning’ gives hope to nerdy Black kids like me
by Antoinette Gregg This essay contains minor spoilers for Black Lightning. I had no idea what to expect when I sat down to check out Black Lightning last Tuesday night. I’ve been watching other CW shows like Arrow and The Flash, and I wondering what this leading Black man would have in store for us. […]
Four Oscar nominations offer more proof that ‘Get Out’ is game-changing storytelling
by Andrew Keahey Awards season is never much of a shining time for creatives of color. It’s consistently a celebration of white achievement while Black excellence and other visionaries of color are routinely ignored in favor of the same tropes and story telling devices that we’re used to seeing year after year. These tropes become […]
Cape Town’s severe drought could leave residents without water by April
Mother Nature is letting people have it. While Americans are struggling with post-hurricane and post-wildfire recoveries, global eyes should also remain on people in South Africa. The populous port city of Cape Town is often celebrated for its sustainability and environmentalism work, but in the midst of a years-long drought, officials brace themselves and their […]
A history of white valor: How World War II stories were made to erase violence against Africa
By Lewam Dejen As a Black woman, a diasporic transplant and a student in and of the West, I find myself in a sunken place within traditions of “collective history.” I am nowhere in the stories to which I devoted my everything. Many marginalized people know the struggle of holding tightly onto what decidedly unsees […]
Erykah Badu finding “good” in Hitler highlights the limits of Black empathy after slavery
*A note from our editor Sherronda J. Brown: January is Human Trafficking Prevention Month, and our theme at Black Youth Project is Human Trafficking and Slavery. We are interested in publishing works that address these topics and the things surrounding them.* A few weeks ago, my boyfriend and I decided to watch a trashy horror […]
Yance Ford becomes first trans director to receive an Oscar nomination
Yance Ford’s documentary film Strong Island follows what happened to his family after the murder of his brother in 1992 by a white auto mechanic in New York. As is too often the case, Ford’s brother did not receive justice from the self-proclaimed Criminal Justice system, and was consequently turned into the number one suspect […]
HTGAWM’s sex trafficking storyline is a hidden but pervasive narrative for vulnerable Black girls
*A note from our editor Sherronda J. Brown: January is Human Trafficking Prevention Month, and our theme at Black Youth Project is Human Trafficking and Slavery. We are interested in publishing works that address these topics and the things surrounding them.* This post contains spoilers for season four of How to Get Away With Murder. […]
Reparations will never be given — it’s time we protect the everyday people who take them
*A note from our editor Sherronda J. Brown: January is Human Trafficking Prevention Month, and our theme at Black Youth Project is Human Trafficking and Slavery. We are interested in publishing works that address these topics and the things surrounding them.* I am not the greatest at math. I scored somewhere between the 50-60th percentile […]