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MarShawn McCarrel, an active member of the Black Lives Matter movement in Columbus, Ohio, killed himself on the steps of the Ohio Statehouse this past Monday, according to New York Daily News.

May is Mental Health Awareness Month and National Masturbation Month. This is also the month that we celebrate Mother’s Day. At BYP, we will be exploring these topics alongside the theme of Imagination and the Arts, and we are interested in publishing works that address these topics and the things surrounding them. We want to […]

By Lamont Lilly   Mainstream media would have most of us believe that the current struggle at Standing Rock, North Dakota is all about clean water – that its only focus is stopping the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) from running through Indigenous reservation land. And yes, it is about these things. But while such a […]

Paul Lamar Hunter knows what it’s like growing up with a house full. As the 19th of his mother’s 21 siblings, things didn’t come easy to him or his family. But despite the odds being stacked against him, he not only graduated from college, but has become a successful author. In his latest book, “No […]

This right here is my ___________. You can probably guess the next word in this sentence. If not, you probably haven’t listened to the radio much lately (I don’t blame you if you haven’t). If you haven’t guessed the word let me give you a hint. It isn’t the oversized, gaudy chain dangling from your […]

This week I had the opportunity to speak at Spelman College’s 8th Annual Seven Women at the Cross. For those who are not familiar with Seven Women at the Cross Services it is a time when women preachers and speakers recount the last seven days of Christ living on Earth through the stories of the […]

“It’s all about the U”. Growing up in South Florida I heard this chant all the time, especially between the months of August and January. For those of you who don’t speak “college football”, the “U” is a reference to the University of Miami. During the late 80’s, early 90’s, and early 2000’s they were […]