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by Indigo In May, People Magazine reported that 21 year-old model Jordyn Woods would make her acting debut on season two of Freeform’s Grown-ish. Woods is scheduled to guest star as a freshman undergraduate named Dee, who possesses a “soft-spoken and sincere vulnerability” and is expected to share the screen with Trevor Jackson’s character Aaron. […]

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 […]

by JeCorey Holder

Editor’s Note: This Sexual Health and Awareness month, we will be exploring related issues at BYP, and we are interested in publishing works that address these topics. What does sexual health look like outside of cishetero norms? Where does the #MeToo movement go from here? What can we do to better support survivors, including survivors […]

According to the Huffington Post, all major networks agreed to a White House request to broadcast Donald Trump’s address trying to force congress to give him money a the southern border wall as the government shutdown continues. To do so, networks had to give up a prime-time slot, and all the commercial revenue that comes […]

By Taylor Lamb Social media has been popular long enough that people are no longer consistently singing its praises. Instead, we’ve collectively reached a point that it’s just too much. People care too much. They post too much. They spend too much time on their phones instead of engaging in person. I feel as though […]

I always stop scrolling on his face. I always stare into those puppy dog eyes, aged far beyond their years by hell itself. They stare back in my direction but not at me. Like he was looking for something and I got in the way. Like everything got in the way of what he was […]

After 20 years, France won its second World Cup championship this past Sunday, beating Croatia 4-2. While many celebrated the diverse makeup of the French team in the age of a xenophobic President Trump, many on social media were quick to point out the fact that France has racist and Islamophobic policies and social life […]

According to a new report from the Women’s Media Center, women of color are still vastly underrepresented in print, television and radio platforms. They make up only 7.95 percent of U.S. print newsroom staff, 6.2 percent of local radio staff, and 12.6 percent of local TV news staff. The report analyzes the response of news […]

Per a report from The Daily Beast, the FCC Chairman Ajit Pai is looking to create an open path for right wing Sinclair Broadcasting to finally join forces with Tribune Media. Allowing Sinclair’s programs to be broadcast in 72% of American homes, the merger would essentially eliminate of localism, one of the FCC’s tenets that […]

Yesterday, I called my mama and took a sunshine-filled walk to stop myself from spiraling. Progress. “I’ve gotta take it a bit easier on myself,” I tweeted moments prior. My sorority sister, a Black woman from California whose love for food, art galleries, the written word and rap music helped form an organic friendship, liked […]

According to a New York Times report, Vice Media has been a cesspool of sexism that closely mirrors the way that the “old boys club” of Hollywood has been functioning, despite its reputation for subverting cultural norms and exposing long-standing social issues. In the report, four settlements are uncovered, one of which is a $135,000 […]