Black Life Everywhere
Black Life, Held Together
Across this series, people gather in fields, warehouses, studio spaces, and public events, carrying with... more
Politics
Thurgood Marshall Still Asks Us To Protect The Less Powerful
by Daniel Johnson Thurgood Marshall is arguably the most important figure in modern judicial and legal... 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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Gender Fluidity, Chosen Family, and the Invitation to Realness
By Amanzi Arnett Dowdy “This is a new meaning of family… It wasn’t a question of a man and a woman and children, which we grew up knowing as a family.... more
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Building a Culture of Consent
Building a culture of consent is imperative for preventing violence in our communities. When you hear the word consent, do you automatically think about sex? Maybe you... more
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The Danger Of Memorializing Men Like Justin Fairfax and Africa Bambaataa
On April 16, former Virginia Lt. Gov Justin Fairfax shot and killed his wife, Cerina Wanzer Fairfax before turning the gun on himself and taking his own life. In the... more
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The Truth About Hierarchy and the Push for Supremacy in Our Dating Lives
By Mo Viviane (they/she/he/its) In 2019, I dodged a death day. I don’t say that for shock value. I’ve spent the last five years trying to understand how... more
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How a durag pulled me into everyday Black matter-ing
by Dr. Chaz Barracks In the early 2000s, as a little Black boy with ‘two much sugar’, I received my first durag from my favorite cousin’s boyfriend. While... more
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What is critique and who gets to do it?
by Dr. Ravynn K. Stringfield I am not sure when we began to construct “the artist” and “the critic” as two distinct entities, but I am concerned about who gets... more
Featured
What is critique and who gets to do it?
by Dr. Ravynn K. Stringfield I am not sure when we began to construct “the artist” and “the... more
Featured
Desire Has A Racial Hierarchy
By Taylor Allyn On the apps, it is always the same choreography. I open the grid and feel my body enter... more
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How We Keep Each Other Alive
by Amber Butts I take my shoes off and step into the dirt. The ground is cold, damp enough to come up... more
Featured
Black Culture Is Not a Costume: K-Pop, Cultural Appropriation, and Racial Capitalism
by Charles Tremblay Black culture is everywhere, on runways, in music, even in the way people speak and... more
Culture
How We Fight Adult Supremacy in Black Communities
by Tayler Simon I remember when I was a child, I told my mom I never wanted to grow up. Adults... 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
Gender Fluidity, Chosen Family, and the Invitation to Realness
By Amanzi Arnett Dowdy “This is a new meaning of family… It wasn’t a question of a man and a woman and children, which we grew up knowing as a family.... more
Race
How a durag pulled me into everyday Black matter-ing
by Dr. Chaz Barracks In the early 2000s, as a little Black boy with ‘two much sugar’, I received my first durag from my favorite cousin’s boyfriend. While... 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."
