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By Verdell Wright I used to be a minister. I preached the goodness of God every day. But after deep reflection and honesty, I decided this Black boy had to go. I had to leave the Christian faith, as well as any belief in the supernatural, behind. I was headed toward this point for a […]

Nearly 90 years after it was first written, Zora Neale Hurston’s series of interviews with one of the last Africans brought to America from the Atlantic slave trade has arrived in bookstores across the country. Barracoon is introduced rather fittingly by Alice Walker, the woman whom we can thank for a revitalized interest and scholarship […]

George Zimmerman, the 34 year old man acquitted of murdering Trayvon Martin, was summoned for criminal charges of stalking in the state of Florida, a press release by Seminole County Sheriff’s Office on May 7th stated. Zimmerman is accused of both threatening and harassing Dennis Warren, a private investigator hired by a production company to […]

A white person who calls the police on a Black person—without legitimate threat to person, property or loved ones—greatly increases the odds that the Black person will be harmed or killed. Last Thursday, a white female Starbucks employee called the police on two Black men in the Philadelphia store. Multiple reports state that a Starbucks employee […]

Editor’s Note: April is Black Women’s History Month. Throughout this month, Black Youth Project is celebrating Black women. This month is also National Minority Health Month, Autism Awareness Month, Sexual Assault Awareness Month, Child Abuse Prevention Month. We are interested in publishing works that address these topics and the things surrounding them. By Breeana Nykole […]

According to a report from Jacobin, Wall Street is attempting to squeeze every last dime out of Puerto Rico that it can while using what Jacobin reporter Lara Merling calls “indefensible” cuts to public servants of Puerto Rico. The conservative leaning Wall Street Journal tastelessly referred to Puerto Rico’s debt as the top performing bond investment […]

While Parkland shooting survivors-turned-activists continue advocating gun reform to legislators, one group of their peers rightly reminded the public that their lived experiences and ideas are important to this movement as well. Black students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School recently shared their assessments of racial under-representation and misrepresentation with CNN. At the 3,000 student […]

By Teju Adisa-Farrar Draylen Mason was a 17-year-old living with his family in Austin, Texas when he was killed by a bomb on March 12th. Many of the articles written about his death list all of his accolades and note how incredibly talented he was. The picture generally shared is one where he is playing […]

Brianna Brochu, the disgraced former University of Hartford student who bragged on social media about contaminating her ex-roommate’s personal items, received a slap on the wrist in court this week. The Hartford Courant reported that Brochu will receive a special kind of probation that could enable her to skip a criminal record. Victim Chennel “Jazzy” […]

California’s judicial bench is becoming more representative of the state’s racial and ethnic populations, according to new findings by the Judicial Council of California. Among other findings, women now compose 35 percent of superior court judges, a rise from 2006’s 27 percent. While the racial and ethnic diversity remains incredibly low, those figures increased as […]

While America grieves with the Parkland community and generally supports the survivors-turned-activists in the South Florida community, some implore the nation to also support gun reform activists when they are mostly or solely Black and Brown people. Amidst these pushes and political pressures, a troubling transcript has been brought to light. According to the transcript, […]

Marvel’s Black Panther is already a huge hit and the movie hasn’t even opened for the public yet. Those who have seen the movie have been singing its praises, and the movie has been lauded in nearly every review as “groundbreaking” and “something we have never seen before,” garnering a 97% fresh score on Rotten […]