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Editor’s Note: June is LGBTQ Pride Month. At Black Youth Project, we will be exploring gender, sexuality, transgender issues and queer theory, and we are interested in publishing works that address these topics and the things surrounding them. This essay contains discussions of transphobia, and mentions molestation, suicidal ideation, and r/pe by Jamila Dawn Mitchell […]

by Jamilah Bellinger Eric Swalwell, the once presidential hopeful, became known for his stance on generational politics, most notably, his remarks towards Joe Biden, calling on him to “pass the torch.” During his short time on the debate stage he made it clear that his solution to the most pressing issues as president would be by […]

by Tonya McKenzie This essay contains discussions and descriptions of sexual violence, child abuse, and murder There are some things that you never forget, like the sound of a car screeching down the street and slamming into one of your neighbors or the bombastic sound of a gunshot and the sight of the damage that […]

by Andrew Keahey I remember being put to bed by my Mother when I was a small child. I remember feeling my head start to bob and my eyes start to droop as I tried unsuccessfully to watch the late night shows that the grown ups got to watch. She would scoop me up in […]

Bishop Curry of McKinney, Texas doesn’t plan to have the kind of summer you’d expect of any other 10-year-old. Instead of going to camp or watching cartoons all day, Bishop is working to help prevent hot-car deaths. 

In a recent interview with the Washington Examiner‘s Salena Zito, Donald Trump – the current President of the United States – asked, “What caused the Civil War?” This led many in the news media to highlight the sitting president’s apparent lack of knowledge about the historical context surrounding this country’s most deadly war. While it […]

I grew up in Oakland, California in the nineties and have been arrested and harassed by police more times in my life than I can count. I have been one of the people running away when we heard the call, “5-0! 5-0!” signalling that, no matter what we were doing – lawful or otherwise – […]

There is a major difference between appropriating and appreciating a culture. I love watching anime and reading manga, I appreciate the story lines and the artistic styles. Though I do not participate, many fans attend anime conventions fully costumed which is acceptable because it is apart of the event. Outside of this space, costume wearing […]

By: Kristen Topp             Yesterday was an especially awkward day for the students that I teach. It was the PUBERTY TALK. I was sure it would be painful for some of my students. However I didn’t anticipate how uncomfortable the presentation would make me. Not because of the terrible 80’s video, nude cartoons of pre-pubescent […]

A recent cartoon depicting President Barack Obama as an ape has sparked outrage. In the stripe, President Obama appears to have apelike features, and air bubbles of statements he’s made in the past about the Affordable Care Act and the Middle East hover over his head. The cartoon, created by Ted Rall, was posted to […]

Unsurprisingly, a recent AP poll finds that racial prejudice in the US has not improved since the election of Barack Obama. 51 percent of respondents expressed explicit anti-black sentiments. Is anybody even remotely surprised by these results?

Honestly, I have wanted to speak on Rape Culture for a while, but I have remained hesitant for a long time, quite simply because I am a man. The privilege of being a man and talking about such a sensitive subject, from a position of power is one that I, even now, am not entirely […]