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Feature: Grassroots organization BYP100 uses “radical inclusion” to combat racial injustice
Editor’s Note: This month at BYP, we will be exploring Black Liberation & Organizing, and we are interested in publishing works that address these topics. How do we hold politicians accountable to Black communities? Is that even possible? What should be our role in the electoral politics? What does abolition look like in practice? What […]
Charlene Carruthers stepping down as National Director of BYP100 at the end of the year
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, […]
New Media, Activism, and the Origins of BYP100
In a new working paper entitled “And then the Zimmerman Verdict Happens,” Nathan Jamel Riemer discusses the development of the Black Youth Project 100 (BYP100, the Black Youth Project’s sister, activist organization) amidst developments in new media and a persistently hostile and anti-black racial environment in the United States. The paper, number 3 in a […]
BYP100 Chicago’s Statement On Dante Servin’s Circumvention of Accountability
It has been announced today that Dante Servin has chosen to resign from the Chicago Police Department instead of facing an evidentiary hearing for the 2012 killing of Rekia Boyd. While this serves as a relief for the sake of both Rekia Boyd’s family and the larger Chicago community, it is also indicative of an […]
BYP100 Feature: Read the ‘Agenda to Build Black Futures’ Now
BYP100 has created the Agenda to Build Black Futures and it is a must-read. They have outlined problems, solutions, and their proposed agenda for the preservation Black lives on their website. The problems that BYP100 are fighting include the state of Black Youth in the U.S. economy where “it is hard to measure the extent […]
BYP100 Feature: #JusticeForEricHarrisNOLA
On Monday Feb 8th, 2016, Eric Harris, a 22nd year old Black man was killed by deputies from the Jefferson Parish Sherriff’s Office (JPSO) in the Central City neighborhood of New Orleans. Authorities have attempted to justify the shooting by claiming they acted in self-defense after Harris crashed his car into a pole. It was […]
Not Your Grandfather’s Black Freedom Movement: An Interview with BYP100’s Charlene Carruthers
By: Salim Muwakkil There is little doubt that the Black Lives Matter era of protests will be branded as a millennial moment. But Black women are so prominent in the movement’s leadership, the era might also be characterized as a matriarchal moment.
BYP 100 Feature: official statement from the byp100 on the firing of cpd police superintendent
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: December 1, 2015 Contact: Camesha Jones 240-533-2876 chicago.chapter@byp100.org official statement from the byp100 on the firing of cpd police superintendent garry mccarthy BYP100 calls for resignation of Mayor Emanuel and States Attorney Alvarez, defunding of policing and investment in Black futures
From Ferguson to Palestine: Dream Defenders, BYP100, Black Lives Matter, and Ferguson Activists Travel to Palestine
Charlene Carruthers, national director for BYP100, joined other activists on a trip to Palestine and Israel. Organized by the Dream Defenders, the trip also included representatives from Black Lives Matter, Ferguson/Hands Up United and Justice League NYC as well as journalist Marc Lamont Hill, poet Aja Monet, and USC student Maytha Alhassen.
Event: Black Holidaze — A BYP100 Kwanzaa
BYP100 Chicago Chapter invites you to celebrate with us!
Video: BYP100’s Jessica Pierce talks activism, youth-led movements
BYP100 member and national co-chair Jessica Pierce recently appeared on PBS with a couple of other young activists. Pierce, who has been involved in activism since her days at University of California at Santa Cruz, talked the importance of youth-led protests, and why she insist of being part of them.
BYP100 stages ‘die-in’ in response to Mike Brown grand jury decision
Members of the Black Youth Project 100 gathered outside of Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s office Tuesday to protest the decision by a Missouri grand jury to not charge Officer Darren Wilson who shot and killed an unarmed teen in August.