BYP x AirGo
Airgo x BYP with Janae Bonsu
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.
Politics
Big Pharma and the prison industry are colluding to overmedicate incarcerated populations
The majority of early testing of psychiatric medications in the 1930s and 1940s were done on incarcerated populations.
Word
“With an estimated 3 million African Americans with the Sickle Cell mutation, only 16% of those of child-bearing age are aware that they are carriers of it. ”
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Black Talk by Donnie Moreland
Black Talk The nectar, in the yoke of his lips, like the odor of the first mother. Her sweat, as she prayed in the belly of The Congo. The waters of Jah, her... more
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Testing HydroxyChloroquine on Black COVID-19 patients is more medical racism
If HydroxyChloroquine is used as a remedy for COVID-19, it will be harmful for millions of African Americans who unknowingly carry the Sickle Cell mutation.
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Lower-Class Artist Imagines
for every government plant, sloppy musician, and federally-flagged artist
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PCOS and Intersex: A Case for Solidarity Against The Binary
The biological sex binary isn’t real and the more we try and devote medical science towards it, people with PCOS and Intersex variants will suffer.
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Comic: Men are well aware of why feminism is needed, they just refuse to admit it
Men are not only well aware of the predatory environment that shapes their attitudes towards women and feminism, they openly conceive ways of navigating it.
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Black conspiracy and skepticism persist because we believe the evidence of our experience
Our evidence of experience is branded as folklore and conspiracy. We know no secrets. But we do know the racial politicking of reasoning.
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Black conspiracy and skepticism persist because we believe the evidence of our experience
Our evidence of experience is branded as folklore and conspiracy. We know no secrets. But we do know the racial politicking of reasoning.
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How nonprofits gaslight you into the same self-sacrificing work as capitalist corporations
Nonprofits gaslight and encourage us to be "workaholics" nefariously under the cloak of being “community-focused” or “progressive”
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Is COVID-19 a crisis within a crisis for Black women?
For black women especially, this glimpse into another potentially deadly reality is both eerily familiar and terrifying.
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How my “functionality” kept others from seeing the severity of my depression
My functionality, like most aspects of my lived trauma, it came from a need to fit in... I am not neurotypical, but I do play the role well enough.
Entertainment
Talking to Black youth about the complexities of sexual racism after Wilder v Fury
There should be concern for Black male youth’s embodiment of their sexual selves, needs and how they understand the world around them.
Education
The siblings of disabled youth are committed to building more accessible worlds
These are skills that can be and must be learned to help all of us grow and to build a more accessible world.
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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According to the Miami Herald, a 50-year-old man from Philadelphia who lives in the Florida Keys found himself on the fast track to a deportation to Jamaica, despite... more
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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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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 is back for our second episode in front of a live audience! This time, we’re excited to launch our #BYPSpotlight, a collaboration with Black Youth Project, a... more
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Black Youth Project joins forces with Chicago podcast, AIRGO, for a year-long series featuring our favorite Black academics and activists. Stay tuned for a new episode... more
Religion
Millennials aren’t skipping church, the Black Church is skipping us
In a time where Black people and youth are reclaiming their authenticity and culture, the Black church needs to immediately reform its practices.
Gender-and-sexuality
PCOS and Intersex: A Case for Solidarity Against The Binary
The biological sex binary isn’t real and the more we try and devote medical science towards it, people with PCOS and Intersex variants will suffer.
Race
Talking to Black youth about the complexities of sexual racism after Wilder v Fury
There should be concern for Black male youth’s embodiment of their sexual selves, needs and how they understand the world around them.
Health
Testing HydroxyChloroquine on Black COVID-19 patients is more medical racism
If HydroxyChloroquine is used as a remedy for COVID-19, it will be harmful for millions of African Americans who unknowingly carry the Sickle Cell mutation.