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Why Vonderrit Myers matters

How Jimi Hendrix’s race became his ‘invisible legacy’

Democratic Candidates Must Work Harder to Lock in Black Voters

The Racist Housing Policies That Built Ferguson

Black Turnout in 1964, and Beyond

We Will Not Be Criminalized. We Will Not Be Dehumanized. We Are Young, Gifted and Black!

On Raven-Symoné and Erasing Black Lesbian Identity

Stop Asking if HBCUs are Relevant

And the Young Ones Shall Lead Them: The Ferguson Rebellion and the Crisis in Black Leadership

When teachers expect less of black and brown students

Judgment Call

Feature: The Reel Reason Why We Must Support Independent Films Like ‘Dear White People’

Feature: Black Voters Have Always Been Loyal, It’s Time For Those Asking For Our Vote to Return the Favor

Feature: Racism and Unchecked Police Violence, An American Epidemic

Feature: National Coming Out Day, Mom Andrea is really Andrei

Feature: The Zero-Tolerance Trap, How a policy meant to protect a school can ruin students’ lives

Feature: Six Months Later Our Girls Haven’t Been Brought Back

Feature: Why I’m Betting on You to Shape the New American Economy

Organizers in Ferguson prep for ‘Weekend of Resistance’

Feature: The Worth of Black Men, From Slavery to Ferguson

BYP100 Releases the Agenda to Keep Us Safe to Mobilize Young Activists Seeking to Hold Police Accountable

Feature: ‘When I close my eyes at night, I see people running from tear gas’

BYP Memo: Young People’s Attitudes toward President Obama, Political Parties, and Government, Implications for the Midterm Elections

“B**ches Ain’t Sh*t”… And Apparently Every Other Woman Is Too

Why We Must Expect More From Hip Hop Artists

Feature: Mirror Mirror when style is ‘ghetto’ on black women, ‘chic’ on whites

Feature: Nurturing black youth activism

Feature: A New, Safer Chicago? End the Grass Gap

Feature: ‘Sophia Tears’ a poem in memory of Sophia Brown

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