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*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* By Law Ware Marvel’s Black Panther […]

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 […]

The police department in Baltimore should be tired of being the subject of news at this point. But yet again we find ourselves talking about the ways in which they are emblematic of the problems within law enforcement in this country. In what is sure to be only the latest scandal involving this city’s police […]

Essence Magazine was just acquired by Richelieu Dennis, the Liberian founder of Sundial Brands, in a deal that saw his independent firm Essence Ventures LLC wrest control of Essence from Time Inc, which is now owned by the Koch brothers. In the original deal for the purchase of Time Inc by the Koch owned Meredith […]

By Law Ware Typically, Christmas is thought of as a time of hopeful expectation. In fact, Advent, the four Sundays before Christmas that many Christian churches use to celebrate the Nativity, began on Sunday, December 3, 2017, and that very notion, hopeful expectation, is a conceptual underpinning of the season.

“CopStop isn’t just for me. It’s for the whole community,” 17-year-old George Hofstetter told The Root recently in a video segment. Hofstetter added that he wants his little brother “to grow up in a world where he doesn’t have to worry about being on the news as an African American child being slain.” The Black […]

by Biola Jeje Growing up in Brooklyn as a child of Nigerian immigrants, I can remember being in church and listening to other Nigerian immigrants deliver testimonies about which son, aunt, cousin, or sister had won the visa lottery and would finally be able to come join them in the United States. Collective sighs of […]

By Eli Day “Maybe it’ll be good for him. He’s gonna get himself killed out here.” Long before he was ever first incarcerated, some version of this softly cruel nonsense clung to my homeboy, and clings to him still. This time, it came as we both stood at the doorstep of fourteen years old, the […]

Progressives like to believe white supremacy is contained, flows predictably from the usual suspects and expires when young people know better and do better. Anti-Blackness, anti-Brown sentiments, Islamophobia and xenophobia are for senile Americans who detest globalism, they believe. Maybe it’s just Trump and crew. Yet, without attacking the roots of white supremacy – how […]

By Sincere Kirabo There are certain things Black folk refer to as White People Shit. You know, activities predominantly enjoyed by white people. This often includes things like storm chasing, BASE jumping, hot yoga, brunch, Burning Man, and trusting the police. Many would say veganism also belongs on this list. That’s what I used to […]

by Kamilah Bush  When Cam Newton flashed that wry, fuckboy smile and called Charlotte Observer reporter Jourdan Rodrigue a “female,” I could hear the collective cackle of like-minded buffoons and simultaneous groan of women ripple across the country. And not long after, when Rodrigue’s anti-Black tweets came to light, those like-minded with Cam strengthened their […]

Kylie Jenner allegedly unfollowed Rihanna on Instagram when Fenty Beauty dropped, and the way I cackled left me aching and in tears. This was not long after I learned Maria Sharapova released her memoir, where she casts Serena Williams in the role of a jealous and begrudging contender. This vein of fragility is the modus operandi […]