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 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... 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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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
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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 – hers. We were getting ready to go out, Beyonce’s “Diva”... more
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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 never met, a name I did not recognize, but a kind of voice I had... more
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The Invisible Labor of Being Ill
By: Amber Butts Black disabled and chronically ill people are often forced to become the archive of our own bodies. We spend days, months, sometimes years trying to... more
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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 navigate misgendering—the act of being called by incorrect pronouns... more
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How Queerness Shapes My Identity and Advocacy
By: Obinna Tony-Francis Ochem Long before I called myself queer, I called myself gay because it was the only language I had for my attraction to men. Growing up in... more
Featured
How Queerness Shapes My Identity and Advocacy
By: Obinna Tony-Francis Ochem Long before I called myself queer, I called myself gay because it was the... more
Featured
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
Featured
Black, Southern, and Queer
By: Alana Brown-Davis I’ve been a daughter of the South all of my life. I was born in Alabama and... more
Featured
Pride without Parade
By Prosper Dave Ogechukwu The first time I heard of Pride Month was from a friend who had... more
Culture
How Rave Culture Became a Sanctuary for Queer Nigerians
By Ugonna-Ora Owoh When Leo, a 28-year-old bisexual man living in Lagos, Nigeria attended a rave for the... 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
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
Race
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
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."
