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by C. Imani Williams Findings from The National Survey of Children with Special Health Care Needs reports 1 in 5 children between the ages of 12-17 have special needs. For Black children, however, that number increases as they are more likely to be identified as persons with disabilities. On top of this stark disparity, Black […]

According to Axios, there have been thousands of sexual abuse allegations on behalf of undocumented minors who were unaccompanied while in the custody of the United States government. Axios received documents from the office of Representative Ted Deutch (D-FL), which trace the allegations over the past four years. The assaults reported to the Department of […]

    BYP100 member and national co-chair Jessica Pierce recently appeared on PBS with a couple of other young activists. Pierce, who has been involved in activism since her days at University of California at Santa Cruz, talked the importance of youth-led protests, and why she insist of being part of them.

  Youth members who were involved with Detroit-based YOUTH VOICE have started a new organization. YOUTH VOICE is a project of the Harriet Tubman Center. 

 httpv://youtu.be/VI8f5DA1MDo Recently at our 1Hood Media Academy we discussed racial profiling. Not surprisingly, all of our students had experienced it in one way or another. We also talked about why we’re racially profiled, and what Black youth should do about it. Ironically we had this conversation before the high profile incidents of “Shop and Frisk” […]

With “The Pledge”, we are asking individuals and organizations to close ranks around black youth and make a commitment to take action and fight with black youth as they confront a relentless crisis. We at the BYP believe that each person can make a difference by doing something!

Far too many Black youth continue to be demonized, criminalized and murdered. Enough is enough! Take the BYP PLEDGE and make a commitment to stand and fight with our youth!

According to the Justice Department, black children in Medina, Mississippi are routinely sent to jail for minor offenses like dress code violations, flatulence, profanity, and disrespect, thus creating a school-to-prison pipeline that violated their constitutional rights.

  Far too many Black youth continue to be demonized, criminalized and murdered.   Enough is enough!   In response to this intensifying crisis, the Black Youth Project (BYP) has launched, “The Pledge”. With “The Pledge”, we are asking individuals and organizations to close ranks around black youth and make a commitment to take action and fight […]

Far too many Black youth continue to be demonized, criminalized and murdered.   Enough is enough!   In response to this intensifying crisis, the Black Youth Project (BYP) has launched, “The Pledge”. With “The Pledge”, we are asking individuals and organizations to close ranks around black youth and make a commitment to take action and […]

Patricia Larry holds a photograph of her son, Darius Simmons, 13 (AP Photo/Dinesh Ramde) Just a few short months ago Hip-Hop journalist Davey D blogged about the 29 Black people that had been killed by police or those claiming to be security since 2012, 16 after the murder of Trayvon Martin. This was before police […]

I have taken a quote from V for Vendetta and applied it to what I have currently been feeling lately. I hope it is useful in adequately articulating how I perceive the Trayvon Martin case, but also my take on how Black Youth are treated in 21st Century America. To be clear, this blog is […]