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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 […]

Ed Sheeran and The Roots did a flawless cover of Fetty Wap’s “Trap Queen” and it’s been uploaded on the The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon Youtube page for everyone to see.

BYP100’s Malcolm London and Luvvie Ajayi are among The Root’s “30 Viral Voices Under 30.” The list celebrates “cool kids” of the Internet, such as journalists, humorists and activists under 30 who shape our daily conversations. 

BYP 100’s National Coordinator Charlene Carruthers is among several powerful young black women who made The Root’s “Young, Black and Feminist” list on Tuesday.

BYP’s very own Jonathan Lykes has been featured as one of TheRoot.com’s Young Futurists of 2013; a list that highlights the year’s best and brightest black innovators between the ages of 16 and 22. Congratulations Jonathan! Keep up the phenomenal work!

Check out the classic video for The Roots breakout single, 1999’s “You Got Me.” Start your day off right at BlackYouthProject.com!

The Root’s Young Futurists List of 25 Innovators The Root | February 2011 When President Obama said “We do big things,” he didn’t have to convince these 25 budding innovators, ages 16 to 21. They are the young people to watch if you want to know where America is heading.

Ever since Spike Lee and Michael Jordan graced my television screen and told me to “just do it” back in the early 90’s, I’ve been following sneaker culture. As a youngster I can vividly remember having verbal spats with my fellow peers at lunchtime about whether the Bo Jackson Nike Air Trainers made you run […]

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 Mustafa Ali-Smith As protests continue on both the national and global scale, widespread call-to-actions ramp up. Dismantling, defunding, and divesting from policing and providing police-free schools are becoming a part of everyday conversations. Early educational institutions have even begun to respond to these call-to-actions by ending their relationship with local police departments and promising […]

America sells itself as a place where hardworking people of different backgrounds thrive. America also sells middle class status as necessary for one’s recognized humanity. However, when nature wreaks havoc on middle class Black Americans, the country has an empathy gap between them and their non-Black middle class or affluent counterparts.  The Washington Post recently […]

Protestors entered the room during the annual Netroots Nation Conference and stole the show from speakers as they chanted “trust Black women!” In particular, they stole the spotlight from Rep. Stacey Evans (D-Ga.), who is looking to earn the Democratic nomination for governor, according to the Washington Post.