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Welcome Home to the Black Youth Project
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 […]
Violating stay-at-home orders directly harms Disabled folks, but what else is new?
Content Warning: Ableism, Car Accident, Death and Discrimination by Dominique Alexander McPhearson I’m in my room watching old NBA highlights, since the NBA, along with the rest of the country, is on lockdown. Quarantine doesn’t bother me as much as it seems to bother other people. After an accident left me paralyzed from the chest […]
What does “home” mean for Black folks when white violence can so easily invade our dwellings?
by Donnie Moreland One of the most haunting images to come out of the Reconstruction Era, for me, is that of the 1872 Harper Weekly engraving entitled “Visit of the Ku Klux.” It’s a crude image, taken up mostly by the figures of a Black family—a mother, her daughter and an elderly man over a fireplace […]
LGBTQ+ youth are disproportionately vulnerable to homelessness and survival sex work
by Maximillian Matthews This essay contains discussions of racialized sexual violence and mentions r/pe “There is probably no greater (or more misleading) body of sexual myths in the world today than those which proliferated around the figure of the American Negro. This means that he is penalized for the guilty imagination of the white people […]
Homeland Security uses fake university to lure and entrap undocumented students
The Department of Homeland security utilized a fake university to lure in students who were overstaying their visa deadlines.
Oklahoma City school to be designed specifically for homeless students
According to CityLab, Positive Tomorrows, a non-profit organization in Oklahoma City, has decided to create a campus that is specifically designed to cater to the needs of homeless children. Gary Armbruster, principal architect for the school and a partner at MA+Architecture, the firm which was tasked with creating designs for the school in 2013, told […]
2nd Black gay man has died in the home of prominent liberal donor and white gay “ally” Ed Buck
A second gay Black man, 55-year old Timothy Dean, was found dead in the home of 64-year old Edward Buck, a notable Democratic donor, in as many years.
“Home is the most dangerous place for women” worldwide, says UN. And in the US, Black women are most likely to killed by partners
The U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) states that more than half of all female murder victims were killed by a family member in 2017. The study concludes that the home is “the most dangerous place for women.”
Tsunami and earthquake leave over 1,000 missing, 1,400 dead & 70,000 homeless in Indonesia
Earlier this week, a dangerous 7.5 magnitude earthquake and tsunami hit the coastal city of Palu, Indonesia, which has a population of 350,000 people. The deadly disasters have killed over 1,400 people and hundreds are still missing.
Israel orders demolition of more Palestinian homes along West Bank, but families prepare to resist
After Israel ordered for the demolition of Khan Al-Ahmar in the West Bank, Palestinian residents have banded together to resist Israeli bulldozers from destroying their homes. Around 180 Palestinian adults and children face forced eviction from the area.
Lawyer: Publicizing marijuana found in home of Black man killed by Dallas cop is a “smear”
Last week, a white Dallas police officer, 30-year-old Amber Guyger, fatally shot her Black neighbor, 26-year-old Botham Jean, in his own apartment. She later claimed she had been drunk, mistook the apartment as her own, and killed Jean thinking he was the intruder. As the fatal incident reignites a conversation on police brutality and Colin […]
Name of Dallas cop who killed Black man after claiming she mistook his home for hers revealed
The Dallas police officer who killed a Black man after she says she mistook it for her own has finally been identified. Amber Guyger had her name released to the public on Saturday when she was charged with misdemeanor manslaughter after shooting and killing 26-year-old Botham Shem Jean, a native of St. Lucia who later died at […]