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Human trafficking remains a global mechanism for the dehumanization of and insidious profiting off of vulnerable people. Human trafficking endures when people are kidnapped, sold, subjected to sexual violence and forced into physical labor. It endures in cosmopolitan cities, in small towns, and in western and eastern worlds. It endures in modern day human markets […]

There has been a shooting at South Carolina State University, a historically black university located in Orangeburg, SC. At least one person has been injured.

Editor’s Note: 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.

As Hurricane Michael makes it way through the Gulf Coast of Florida and North Carolina, evacuations are becoming more and more difficult for residents. But despite being located in mandatory evacuation zones, the Florida Department of Corrections (FDC) have not evacuated 15 state prisons.

Despite a mandatory evacuation order in the area, South Carolina will not evacuate its 1,053 prisoners and staff at Ridgeland Correctional Institution in Jasper County as Hurricane Florence makes its way to the Southern East Coast. North Carolina and Virginia are relocating inmates in all evacuation zones.

According to the Guardian, August 21st marks the beginning of a nineteen-day protest and labor stoppage across the prison populations of American prisons in at least 17 states. The protest, which has largely been organized by the prisoners themselves, is designed to disrupt the system of unpaid labor many prisons in America rely upon to stay […]

According to Jonathan Merritt of the Atlantic, Southern Baptists are attempting to shred their deep ties with the Republican Party and to re-engage with modern culture, as evidenced by their election of 45-year-old North Carolina pastor J.D. Greear as denomination president of the largest Protestant group in the U.S. Greear’s campaign video called for a […]

Seven prisoners at the Lee Correctional Institution in Bishopville, South Carolina are dead following what is being described as a mass brawl. Seventeen were also injured following the melee that began around 7:15 pm Sunday night, and the facility was not secured until around eight hours later according to reports from Buzzfeed. The South Carolina […]

Yesterday, the Supreme Court struck down North Carolina’s 2011 congressional district map, where large blocs of black voters had been subject to racial gerrymandering and placed in oddly shaped districts. The Court determined that there was no compelling racial interest to permit the boundaries of these districts. The vote was decided by Justice Kagan, Justice Thomas […]

Conservative politicians in North Carolina have spent much of the past year pushing forward what’s commonly referred to as the “bathroom bill”. As it currently stands, it would require people to use public restrooms labeled for their assigned gender at birth, putting many transgender people in harms way not to mention violently reinforcing transphobic gender […]

South Carolina State Representative Chris Corley has been a vocal supporter of both the Confederate flag and the Second Amendment, even after Dylann Roof killed nine people in a South Carolina church.  It surely made him popular with a portion of the state’s citizens who feel the same. Corley was arrested Monday after a domestic […]

About a year ago, in April 2015, a video shocked the masses when it showed what clearly appeared to be a police officer shooting a fleeing black man in the back and then planting a taser by his dead body. Michael Slager, the former South Carolina officer that was captured in the video shooting Walter Scott, […]