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Winning the Democratic primary was considered Chokwe Antar Lumumba’s biggest obstacle in his Jackson, Miss. mayoral race. That couldn’t have been more of an understatement. 

Florida State Attorney Angela Corey has lost her reelection bid, making her the first incumbent state attorney in modern history to lose a contested election, according to The Florida Times Union. Corey was the attorney who failed to convict George Zimmerman, the man who killed Trayvon Martin. Corey also brought aggravated assault charges against Marissa […]

    By Lamont Lilly Once home to some of the most violent racists in the U.S., Jackson, Mississippi is now a key training ground for self-determination and organized “people power” throughout the U.S. South. From May 2 through May 4, 2014 activists, organizers and fellow revolutionaries from all over the world gathered at the […]

Civil rights activist and ex-black nationalist Chokwe Lumumba has been elected Mayor of Jackson, Mississippi.

I remember the first time I had my intelligence questioned by a peer like it was yesterday; I had just won the regional spelling bee when a classmate, a non-Black person of color, started a rumor that my accomplishments were simply a result of me smoking marijuana. I was 14, and had never smoked a […]

By: Imani J. Jackson When a movie theatre packed with people of varied races, ethnicities, ages and genders erupts into simultaneous applause and cheers during a film’s closing credits, it’s safe to say the story resonated. That human happiness is exactly what manifested on Saturday when my mother, a grandmotherly elder, my younger sister and […]

A new film is drawing a lot of attention because it depicts the Black women who were behind the Project Mercury and Apollo 11 missions. The film, called Hidden Figures, is important for many reasons. But, mainly, because it adds complexity to the ways that we envision Black womanhood and the histories that brought us […]

“Hidden Figures,” a film about the three black female NASA employees that helped send the first American into orbit in 1972, has just cast its final member of the leading trio – Janelle Monae. 

Taraji P. Henson has been cast to play Katherine Johnson in a Fox 2000 film entitled Hidden Figures, according to Variety.

On April 16, former Virginia Lt. Gov Justin Fairfax shot and killed his wife, Cerina Wanzer Fairfax before turning the gun on himself and taking his own life. In the immediate aftermath of this tragedy, there were many social media memorials, mostly from men, mostly focusing on their relationships with Justin Fairfax.  It should never […]

by Daniel Johnson Thurgood Marshall is arguably the most important figure in modern judicial and legal history. Founder of the Legal Defense Fund as well as its first president and Director-Counsel, the first Black judge to sit on the Second Circuit of Appeals, the first Black Solicitor General, and finally, the first Black Supreme Court […]

by Jenn M. Jackson, PhD Almost a decade ago, I said goodbye to my editing position here at Black Youth Project. I was 33 years old, working on the final edits of my dissertation at the University of Chicago titled “Race, Risks, and Responses: Mapping Black American’s Reactions to Policing in the United States.” My […]