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We are more than just good or bad: How the God of the Binary fails Black people
By Itoro Udofia I grew up under the tutelage of The God of the Binary. He was forever in opposition to a ubiquitous outside force. He was the Good opposed to Evil. The Strong opposed to Weak. Right opposed to Wrong. There I stood, an eager and inquisitive girl child, making mistakes and looking for […]
We are no good to the dead, and yet we believe the grieving owe us their tears
In my family, we have a tradition of cooking and sitting with the grieving, especially when they have no words. Especially when the tears have been ripped out and the well to produce more has disappeared. We honor the lives of the folks who’ve been lost, beaten, and violently shredded from this world by sitting […]
Black people don’t need to be “twice as good”: Unpacking the communal depression of watching Serena lose
As far as I can tell, no one really knows who first stated that Black people have to work twice as hard and be twice as good to be as successful as white people. I’d like to think that a great mass of ancestors came up with the old adage apart but simultaneously, a testament […]
The rage felt so good, until it didn’t: The difficulty of cutting off abusive family members
By Briana Lawrence For some, the family they’re born into doesn’t always take too kindly to Pride symbols like that rainbow bumper sticker on the back of their car. It’s something that irritates the piss out of my mother, who has told me time and time again that she can’t fathom how someone can abandon […]
Sarah Huckabee Sanders was kicked out of restaurant, Maxine Waters says, “Good!”
The White House Press Secretary, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, was asked to leave a Virginia restaurant called Red Hen because she worked for the Trump administration. The event ignited a social media debate about whether businesses should discriminate based on a person’s politics in public spaces. Many responses came everywhere from anti-Trump officials to the President […]
How I learned to stop torturing myself in hopes of getting to “the good part” of bad entertainment
By Briana Lawrence Full disclosure: I used to love me some Roseanne back in the late 80s/90s. Like most fans, when ABC announced a new season, I wondered about what the Conners had been up to. At the time, I wasn’t in the know about Roseanne’s bigotry, but phew, did I get a crash course […]
Iconic Black men are falling from grace. Good.
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 […]
Dick’s Sporting Goods claims massive support after it stops selling assault rifles, increases age limits for guns
Given America’s legal protection of gun rights, the country’s near-deification of guns and its repetitive gun-related tragedy cycle, decreasing customer access to guns could seem like a recipe of ruin for a company’s capital, goodwill and public support. However, Dick’s Sporting Goods leadership reported a positive response to their decision to curtail customer access to guns […]
Erykah Badu finding “good” in Hitler highlights the limits of Black empathy after slavery
*A note from our editor Sherronda J. Brown: January is Human Trafficking Prevention Month, and our theme at Black Youth Project is Human Trafficking and Slavery. We are interested in publishing works that address these topics and the things surrounding them.* A few weeks ago, my boyfriend and I decided to watch a trashy horror […]
“Prison was good for me”: How the state manipulates barely surviving its brutality into sanctuary
By Eli Day “Maybe it’ll be good for him. He’s gonna get himself killed out here.” Long before he was ever first incarcerated, some version of this softly cruel nonsense clung to my homeboy, and clings to him still. This time, it came as we both stood at the doorstep of fourteen years old, the […]
‘Good foods’ with high pesticide residue can affect pregnancies and abilities to give birth
Arguing for improved sustenance options in America seems less than first-world. However food and water, the very substances that fuel us, remain reproductive and environmental justice issues. Food and water quality matter because they affect people as a whole, but especially people of color and those in the socio-economic margins. The specific instances vary. Environmental […]
All good things: A word from BYP Managing Editor Jenn M. Jackson on transitioning roles
Shout out to growth. Shout out to forward movement. Shout out to living my best life. But first, a little background: 2014 was one of the hardest years of my life. I lost my father. I had just given birth to my third child. After months of attempting to sell our home in southern California, […]