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The composer of Princeton University’s orchestra has created a ballad in Trayvon Martin’s memory. Anthony D.J. Branker, who will celebrate his 25th year as Princeton’s founder and director of the program in jazz studies, composed the piece of music after being “moved to the core” upon hearing about Trayvon’s death.

  I remember church. Choirs sang with the brightest hearts. Preachers roared and souls looked for fulfillment.   We sat in our seats, eager to hear the word. We were more than willing to break from our every day pains and sorrows to find solace.

  Halloween is right next door. I absolutely love Halloween. It’s the only day where you can actually be whatever you want to be and no one judges you for it. So put on drag, wear the skimpiest outfit, or be your childhood superhero no matter how embarrassing it may be. It’s all good on […]

If we were to judge Stephanie Georgopulos based on her appearance, we’d think she was white. And we would be half correct. Just a few months ago, the Gawker contributor “came out” as biracial. She was having dinner with a co-worker. “I’m a Capricorn,” she’d said. ‘Yeah…my mom’s black,’ I responded,” writes Stephanie.

It’s no secret that being black in America is dangerous. So dangerous to the point that an organization is dedicating itself to ending racial profiling. And its name is a very intentional reminder why they exist. The Living & Driving While Black Foundation was founded in 2005.

 In light of the recent stupid controversy surrounding Miss America 2014’s Nina Davuluri, I decided to ponder race relations in the context of beauty pageants and American society.

A new report shows that the current state of higher education in the United States continues to perpetuate racial inequality.

According to census data, nearly half of all children in the U.S. under the age of 5 years-old are minorities. Furthermore, whites are a minority among babies, and will be in the minority of children under the age of 18.

The California prison system is under fire for their race-based system of segregation. Prison officials say the system is necessary to deal with race-based violence; opponents argue there’s no excuse for racial segregation of ANY kind.

Mohamen Mehdi Ouazanni, the actor who plays Satan in the History Channel’s Bible Series and President Barack Obama  The History Channel long ago became the cable network with the most ironic name, considering its programing consists mostly of “Pawn Starts” marathons. But now it seem like their taking another shot at “history” programing with their latest […]

Every week, the Black Youth Project collects the top news stories about black youth from across the country. Click here to check out our archive of weekly news round-ups, and check back every Monday for a new roundup of headlines about young black America.

I was in lower parel, the first time I saw a policeman harassing a family who was homeless. This was the first time I felt the familiarity of invisible walls built up in the center of a city that stretched just as far as the wallets of those willing to pay just enough to not […]