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For some people, decency is less a routine response to life than something they pretend to display if the larger climate is right. So with a blatantly racist fuming mantrum at America’s helm, Americans today engage in high levels of overt indecency. If you have not experienced these upticks in racist and ethnic aggression, ask […]

America sells itself as a place where hardworking people of different backgrounds thrive. America also sells middle class status as necessary for one’s recognized humanity. However, when nature wreaks havoc on middle class Black Americans, the country has an empathy gap between them and their non-Black middle class or affluent counterparts.  The Washington Post recently […]

By Salaam Green “Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.” – James Baldwin, Author American axiom would posit that if a 3-year-old becomes highly interested in another 3-year-old on the playground, chances are high that they will rush over and begin to play […]

*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 […]

*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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]

*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 […]

How nations treat their most vulnerable, often children and the elderly, reflects their values. So while Congress battled over whether to revive American government—and did so after a brief shutdown—millions of Americans wondered whether their children’s health would be compromised in the shuffle. People of various backgrounds hoped that the bi-partisan support that kept the […]

According to a report from Ben Raines of Al.com, researchers may have found the long-buried and forgotten remains of the Clotilda, the ship widely believed to be either the last or among the last ships to complete voyages that brought Africans to America, entangling them in slavery. The ship was at least partially buried in […]

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 […]