Black Life Everywhere
Black Life, Held Together
Across this series, people gather in fields, warehouses, studio spaces, and public events, carrying with... more
Politics
The Invisible Labor of Being Ill
By: Amber Butts Black disabled and chronically ill people are often forced to become the archive of our... 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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The WNBA’s Problem Is a Crisis of Leadership
By: Daniel Johnson As the Women’s National Basketball Association marks its 30th, and arguably best season to date, the league’s labor union delivered a landmark... more
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Subtitles to Street Talk: Hood Anime Dubs as Cultural Translation, Not Just Comedy
By: Nakia Owens Black creators have been expanding anime’s reach for years. The fandom is only now catching up. If you grew up Black and loving anime, you already... more
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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
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Being “That Gurl”: Respectability, Transness, and Femme Politics of Everyday Life
By: Chaz Barracks, PhD In a poignant dialogue between two Black trans women who are media influencers, TS Madison and Alexis Sno Legend refuse the respectability... more
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The Dead Cannot Correct Them: Grief, Repressions, and Life in the US
By: Amber Butts There’s always a reason the dead had to die. This country is very practiced at explaining itself, searching the dead for a reason before it admits... more
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A Made Masculinity: On Masculinity, Black Gender Expression, and Growing up a Tomboy
By: Jari Bradley Legend has it that, as a child, I hated dresses. I was just entering kindergarten and someone thought it would be fitting to adorn me in red ruffles for... more
Featured
A Made Masculinity: On Masculinity, Black Gender Expression, and Growing up a Tomboy
By: Jari Bradley Legend has it that, as a child, I hated dresses. I was just entering kindergarten and... more
Featured
A Black Queer Joy Visual Without A Witness
by: Amari Murray The first time I noticed the change, it was in the mirror. Not my reflection –... more
Featured
Keep Taking The Pill: On Living and Loving with Undetectable HIV Status
By: Taylor Alleyn The message came in the middle of something ordinary. A notification. A man I had... more
Featured
The Politics of Misgendering Black Queer and Trans People
By: Maya Williams As a nonbinary feminine person who uses ey/em, they/them, and she/her pronouns, I... more
Culture
Embracing the Old: Speculative History in ‘Compensation’
By Juahl Ganaway Zeinabu irene Davis’s 1999 film Compensation functions as both an homage to early... 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
The WNBA’s Problem Is a Crisis of Leadership
By: Daniel Johnson As the Women’s National Basketball Association marks its 30th, and arguably best season to date, the league’s labor union delivered a landmark... 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."
