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By Émelyne Museaux White women’s sovereignty has always been inextricably linked to the subjugation and exploitation of Black people. Research shows that 40% of slave owners were white women during US chattel slavery. According to history professor Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers, most of these white women inherited slaves from their fathers and retained ownership of them […]

41-year old fired Florida officer Nouman Raja was just sentenced to a minimum of 25 years for the 2015 fatal shooting of 31-year old Corey Jones, a Black motorist. Raja is the first Florida officer in 30 years to be convicted of an on-duty shooting.

Della Reese, accomplished jazz, R&B, Gospel singer, and actress was mourned all across social media when the news that she passed away broke. Perhaps best known for her role as Tess, a heavenly messenger on CBS’ Touched by an Angel television series or as Vera, a 1920’s era Madam, in the 1989 film Harlem Nights. […]

A man in Kansas City, Kansas has been released after spending 16 years in prison over a botched purse snatching that he didn’t even commit. 

[Banner photo: A headline from The Daily Kos seeming to play up the fact that Jordan Edwards was unarmed and an “honor roll student”] By Zoé Samudzi On May 20, Richard Collins III, a young Black soon-to-be graduate of Bowie State University, was murdered by Sean Urbanski, a member of a white supremacist Facebook group called Alt-Reich […]

What is my nation? When Colin Kaepernick first refused to stand for the national anthem earlier this year, I imagine this question weighed heavily on his mind as well. I imagine he considered how Black people in America were dragged, kicking and screaming, some jumping overboard to certain death rather than facing a future of […]

For black women interested in art, the opportunity to speak with like-minded peers can be few and far between. The lack of space for black women in the art world compelled Jovonna Jones and Samantha Scott to create BlacQurl, an online magazine and platform for black women and femme writers, creatives, and critics.

  A northwest Indiana man and woman have filed a federal lawsuit against the Hammond Police Department, alleging officers used excessive force during a routine traffic stop. The woman’s son recorded the incident on his cell phone. 

  Texas A&M University-Commerce experienced a great loss after two members of its women’s basketball team died in a car accident on Loop 286 in Paris. Four members of the Lion’s were injured as they traveled to Paris High School to watch a summer league basketball game.  

It has been at least 2 years since I last posted a blog on the Black Youth Project’s website primarily because of school and life demands. However, after learning of how a group of black male pastors, who happen to pastor some of the largest black churches in the Nation, decided to host an agenda […]

Silence on black youth arrest rate deafening Ed Wells, Rockford Star, July 22, 2011 A Program for Youth Safety Begins With Just a Sign James Warren, New York Times, July 22, 2011 Black Tea Partiers Protest Alexis Garrest Stodghill, Atlanta Post, July 22, 2011 A Black Class Divide and a Generation of Rage? Mechanics News, […]

Students defend need for HBCUs Elizabeth Crisp, The Clarion Ledger, February 22, 2010 Black students gather in ‘Solidarity’ Grace Patuwo and Nikita Lalwani, Yale Daily News, February 22, 2010 For Many Latina Teens, Gang Life Adds to Stress Meribah Knight, New York Times, February 21, 2010 New leader vows she’ll bring ‘new generation’ to NAACP Samira Simone […]