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Editor’s Note: June is LGBTQ Pride Month. At BYP, 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. We want to hear from you! Send us your pitches at info@blackyouthproject.com By Jallicia Jolly Amidst the spate of […]

Too many everyday people and political leaders hold dehumanizing views about vulnerable people. One such belief is that people who need help to make ends meet should cede most basic choices in their lives. The Trump administration’s recent proposal to curb most of the food choices for people who receive Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits brought […]

CVS Health agreed to acquire Aetna in what is being described as a blockbuster mega-merger earlier this week. The 69 billion dollar merger is the first between a drug store chain and an insurer, a move that, on Aetna’s part, is driven by visibility and on CVS’s is driven by competition, but the two are […]

By: Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Among the youngest white adult Americans, feelings of racial and economic vulnerability appear to be closely connected to their support for Donald Trump in last month’s election. That’s according to an analysis of a new GenForward poll of Americans between the ages of 18 and 30. Other surveys of […]

The options have been laid out for us. The past two weeks have given us an eye and earful of presidential hopefuls Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. The different tones of the conventions have demonstrated a deep divide between the two parties, and the Republican and Democratic platforms suggest very little tangible overlap between the […]

A New York teen who made headlines after being selected into all eight Ivy League schools has made a decision. Kwasi Enin will take his talents to Yale University. 

A Florida man on trial for killing an unarmed teenager over loud music said that he “had no choice” but to shoot him. Michael Dunn, 47, is charged with first-degree murder in the shooting death of 17-year-old Jordan Davis at a Jacksonville convenience station in November 2012. 

  Just days after a video of her surprising her assistant with a brand new house for Christmas went viral, Jennifer Hudson is yet again making news for her altruism. Hudson will receive the People’s Choice Award for Humanitarian of the Year.  Hudson was selected in recognition for her work with the Julian D. King Gift Foundation, an […]

Don’t miss YOUTH VOICES: TRUTH AND CHOICES; A culturally enriching and empowering event featuring Chicago’s youth-led organizations & guest speaker Dr. Beth Richie.

The question I have for people in our community is “what will it take to save our youth from making those mistakes that can deny them of a brighter future?” When I was 14 years old I had a chance to get my first taste of the neighborhood or “hood” as it is so often […]

by Benji Hart       1. I’m a teenager, attending the annual Kwanzaa celebration at Amherst College, the small private school where my dad is a professor. A modest band of Black students and faculty have gathered for dinner in the Octagon. The plaster building, lemon meringue in both color and texture, was reclaimed […]

By Johnae Strong  A film by Johnaé Strong Some works capture the beauty of Black life.Others hold its tension, its memory, its muscle.This one does all of that—and then breathes into it. Black Things Today, directed by Johnaé Strong, is a cinematic offering rooted in presence, ritual, and return. Told through the lives of three […]