Black Life Everywhere
How Has Oakland Fed You?
Oakland has raised generations of Black organizers, artists, and families whose relationships to the... more
Politics
How “America First” Is Reshaping Black Lives Beyond America’s Borders
By: Daniel Anthony When Kofi heard that his clinic was closing, he panicked, wondering where else... 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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No Ceilings: A Concept Rooted in Radical Imagination
By: Joél Leon No Ceilings is a monthly Black Youth Project column by Joél Leon where he explores the uninhibited magic, joy and potential of Blackness, boyhood and... more
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How To Destroy Apathy
By Joshua Merchant pray about it. pray about it and make sure God looks like you. pray about it and know an Angel be a bloom before the fruit drops. even a... more
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A Name Spells Itself
By Joshua Merchant fifteen minutes before he is a bitter river of white running through me “Jay” becomes “Walter”. a small gift I’ve learned to... more
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An Oakland Homecoming: Space, Place, and the Politics of Return
By: Jenn M. Jackson, PhD The air was crisp when I exited the Oakland Airport in January 2026. It felt different than I remembered. Coming home, the weather always... more
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From Jim Crow to Project 2025: The Fight Over Black Education
By: A’naya Jones For generations, education has represented more than an opportunity for Black Americans to earn a degree. It has represented freedom, mobility,... more
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What Happens After Placement? Adoption and Black Life
By: Rian Martin For a long time, I thought being adopted was so unusual that I could never meet someone like me. I was adopted when I was two years old, after... more
Featured
What Happens After Placement? Adoption and Black Life
By: Rian Martin For a long time, I thought being adopted was so unusual that I could never meet... more
Featured
Black Gen Z Doesn’t Need Another ‘Leave Your Hometown’ Speech
By. Kourtney K Galloway I have noticed there is a certain kind of ambition that gets handed to young... more
Featured
Mutual Aid, Fascism, and the Politics of Care
My maternal grandparents were Black Panthers in Oakland. They loved and partied and organized and fought... more
Featured
A Difficult Miracle: Black Poetics in a Time of Crisis
A Difficult Miracle: Black Poetics in a Time of Crisis By Jari Bradley Prior to the Callaloo... more
Culture
Opening the Door of Return
By Norrell Edwards, PhD The hypnotic pale blue waves crash against large grey stones; it’s so... more
Education
The Other Side of “Black Excellence”
By: DeLisha Tapscott, Ed.D. Nobody really tells you what happens when you become “the one who made... 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
Loving in All Directions: Finding a Homeplace in One Another
By Mo Viviane (they/she/he/its) Let me take you back. It’s 1999, and Grandmama is in the kitchen preparing breakfast for the church congregation at Banks Chapel AME... more
Race
No Ceilings: A Concept Rooted in Radical Imagination
By: Joél Leon No Ceilings is a monthly Black Youth Project column by Joél Leon where he explores the uninhibited magic, joy and potential of Blackness, boyhood and... 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."
