Black Life Everywhere
Black Life, Held Together
Across this series, people gather in fields, warehouses, studio spaces, and public events, carrying with... more
Politics
Black Women are Portals
by Miranda Goosby Grief isn’t always sad. Sometimes, grief is a portal. It cracks something open. It... more
Word
“Love, kissing, and more is so tied to sex and romance that those who are asexual and aromantic have to create a whole new language to describe our experiences.”
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Erotic Communion: Black Women’s Pleasure in ‘Sinners’
by Juahl Ganaway In a scene ripped from The Sugar Shack, the character Pearline (played by the stunning Jayme Lawson) stalks across the stage purring the lyrics to... more
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We Were Taught to Be Useful Before We Were Allowed to Be Human
by DeLisha Tapscott, Ed.D. I learned to be useful long before I understood what labor was. Long before I had language for work, worth, or expectation, I understood that... more
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Losing Recipes: Love in the Age of Ghosting
by Naiquan. Last summer, a friend and I realized we hadn’t seen children playing in the fire hydrant. No elder on the block with a key to unlock the “Johnny Pump”.... more
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In the Wake of ‘The Trayvon Generation’
by Jenn M. Jackson, PhD When I found out that George Zimmerman, the white-passing, mixed race Latinx man who killed Trayvon Martin on February 26th, 2012, was acquitted... more
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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... more
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Murals and Community Art Across Atlanta
Lasalle is an Atlanta-based muralist and multidisciplinary artist whose work appears across the city’s everyday surfaces — walls, utility boxes, and street corners... more
Featured
Murals and Community Art Across Atlanta
Lasalle is an Atlanta-based muralist and multidisciplinary artist whose work appears across the city’s... more
Featured
Change the Name
Change the Name Cai Thomas - student activists and educators campaigned to change the name of a park from a slaveholder to an abolitionist.
Culture
Print Never Left: Black Writers on Archiving and Self-Published Print Media
by Dr. Ravynn Stringfield Social media is currently flooded with messages from people encouraging others... more
Education
Reading for Our Lives: How Book Bans Leave Black Kids Behind
by Tayler Simon In the 2024-2025 school year, more than 4,000 unique titles were banned in the United... more
Videos
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According to Vox, eight players from the Ole Miss men’s basketball program knelt during the national anthem in protest of a rally on campus in support of... more
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Philadelphia man living in the Florida Keys found himself on the fast track to a deportation to Jamaica, despite being an American citizen.an
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According to USA Today, an independent autopsy commissioned by the Bradford family shows that Emantic Bradford Jr. was shot from behind three times by police during the... more
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Border Patrol fires tear gas, chases asylum seekers and closes the border to keep them out of the US
According to Buzzfeed News, late Sunday evening, Border Patrol agents temporarily closed the San Ysidro Port of Entry, one of the most used border crossings in the... more
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The Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights (RFK) Foundation, led by Kerry Kennedy, started a month-long mission to bail out hundreds of women and juveniles at Rikers Island.... more
BYP x AirGo
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Black Youth Project has joined forces with AirGo for a year-long #BYPSpotlight series, featuring our favorite Black academics and activists. Jawanza is the Executive... more
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Janae Bonsu talks about learning stillness and finding peace, imagining new interventions when gender violence needs to be addressed, her cheese game, and much more.
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Black Youth Project has joined forces with AirGo for a year-long #BYPSpotlight series, featuring our favorite Black academics and activists. This month’s #BYPSpotlight... more
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Black Youth Project has joined forces with AirGo for a year-long #BYPSpotlight series, featuring our favorite Black academics and activists. First up is Barbara... more
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AirGo and BYP co-curated a set of episodes featuring young Black Chicagoans Damon and Kiss, guest cohost Tribble and the musician Tasha
Religion
We are more than just good or bad: How the God of the Binary fails Black people
Decolonizing spirituality and learning to survive this world of inequitable structures and gross interpretations of the Word of God.
Gender-and-sexuality
Erotic Communion: Black Women’s Pleasure in ‘Sinners’
by Juahl Ganaway In a scene ripped from The Sugar Shack, the character Pearline (played by the stunning Jayme Lawson) stalks across the stage purring the lyrics to... more
Race
Erotic Communion: Black Women’s Pleasure in ‘Sinners’
by Juahl Ganaway In a scene ripped from The Sugar Shack, the character Pearline (played by the stunning Jayme Lawson) stalks across the stage purring the lyrics to... more
Health
Three Ways to Love Black
Benji Heart explores being Black and Queer and examines the depths of what it means to be "a hard people to love."
