2015 Search results for "2013"

Chicago’s plans to build a $95 million police training compound in West Garfield Park has created a fierce community campaign, #NoCopAcademy. Due to protestors’ disruption of Tuesday’s city council meeting, the vote on the funding measure for the police academy has been postponed.

by Josie Pickens This essay contains discussion of sexual abuse against Black girls and women. To watch what has been a decades-long movement by Black women to boycott and end the career of singer, songwriter, and serial sexual predator R. Kelly finally gain national attention, significant momentum, and media coverage is surreal, to say the […]

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 […]

Charlene Carruthers, the Founding National Director of BYP100, has announced via a heartfelt letter that she will be leaving the organization at the conclusion of the year. For the past five years, Carruthers has lead and guided and managed a movement which has actively sought to center a Black queer feminist vision. Founded in 2013, […]

by Jamila Mitchell If Black voices in a “movement” are auxiliary to everything, then it is not a “movement” that intends to end anti-Blackness, and is certainly not meant for Black people. Politics in America have proven that issues which affect predominantly Black people are not a priority, even in liberal social movements like March […]

By Alyxandra Goodwin Rapper and criminal justice reform advocate Jay-Z recently announced that he is investing in a “decarceration start-up” called Promise. The app sets up a “care plan” for individuals that would have alternatively been monitored while housed in a jail facility, instead monitoring them out in the world and providing reminders for court […]

by Josie Pickens Sonya Renee Taylor’s The Body Is Not An Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love is equal parts self-help guide and interrogating conversation about body shaming and body terrorism. Taylor’s premise is that if we stop terrorizing our own bodies, we will feel obligated to not only stop terrorizing the bodies others, but […]

According to a report by the Detroit Free Press, the reading proficiency of the third-grade children in Flint has dropped from 41.8% in 2013 to 10.7% in 2017. Flint School board vice president Harold Woodson says that the literacy crisis in the Flint community did not begin with the water crisis in 2013, and will […]

*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 […]

“I’m getting tired of your shit. You don’t never buy me nothing,” Erykah Badu free-styled on her prophetic track “Tyrone” in 1997. The song captures a protagonist whose unbalanced emotional, financial and romantic labor led her to rhythmically collect her dude, a dude who could have also been collected by the homeboys he was so […]

By Terrence Sage The following is a list of comics either ongoing or releasing this year. It is focused on either Black creative teams penning the adventures of superheroes, or comics that star Black superheroes in a prominent light!

Nearing the end of each year, I like to compile a list of upcoming films that look intriguing to me or that I have been anticipating for months, or even years. This year, I tailored my list to be extensive and hella Black, just for y’all. Each of these feature a predominantly Black cast, Black […]