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Heroes are basically destined to fall, and so I’ve made an effort to resist bestowing that honor even upon people I admire the most. Still, the recent antics of Kanye West, inarguably one of the most influential hip-hop artists of the last two decades whose music has played a huge role in my life, have […]

Editor’s Note: This essay contains discussion of domestic violence, sexual assault, and mentions of r/pe Eldridge Cleaver was a predator—a night stalker. He practiced on “black girls in the ghetto” where he knew the crimes would not be investigated before he eventually ventured across the tracks to methodically rape white women. “Rape was an insurrectionary […]

According to reports from CNN, Bill Cosby has finally been found guilty in a case stemming from allegations he drugged and sexually assaulted Andrea Constand at his Philadelphia home in 2004. An 80-year-old Cosby faced three counts that carry up to a ten year sentence for each guilty verdict. It is likely that Cosby will […]

by Kamali Senior Content Warning: This essay contains discussion of anti-Black violences, including lynching and r/pe  American history is marred by white violence, extremism, and terrorism, as harrowing as it is extensive. In America, the archetype of a terrorist is, allegedly, a disaffected Black or brown person with radical ideologies, willing to act on them. […]

While Mark Zuckerberg is being grilled by Congress on issues related to Facebook sharing data with Cambridge Analytica, and the infiltration of the social media giant by Russian trolls, reports began to surface that one of the biggest Black Lives Matter profiles on the platform is actually a fake. According to The Root, a CNN […]

By Arielle Iniko Newton Last weekend, my six roommates and I were interviewing potential roommates to fill an unoccupied room in the social justice-oriented home we share. One of the prospects was a white, cisgender, heterosexual man. Upon interviewing him we quickly learned that he did not possess a commitment to dismantling whiteness that we […]

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 […]

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. This essay contains brief descriptions […]

Looking to Louisiana officials and the White House for solace in response to Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry’s recent announcement that no charges will be filed in connection with the 2016 shooting death of Alton Sterling is fruitless. Landry told the public his office would not file charges against Blane Salamoni and Howie Lake II, […]

Reproductive justice advocates—Sistersong, in particular—and community organizers pushed for more humane treatment of pregnant inmates in North Carolina and helped secure a recent policy change to that end in the state. The News Observer reported that Prison Director Kenneth Lassiter signed a policy to end the use of leg or wrist restraints on women, who […]

by Kamali Senior  Last December, a man and his son were arrested for unlawful possession of firearms in Dallas, Texas. The FBI raided their home, the son and the father were separated, and two assault rifles were seized by the authorities, along with a book titled Negroes with Guns. This is the result of being […]

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 […]