By Any Media Necessary: Mapping Youth and Participatory Politics

Black Youth Project

The Black Youth Project (BYP) started in 2004 as a national research project led by Principal Investigator Professor Cathy J. Cohen that examined the attitudes, resources and culture of African American youth. Since then, the BYP has grown into a multi-faceted online hub that houses resources, not just for scholars and researchers, but also for activists and news seekers. Today, BYP is driven by three guiding principles: 

KNOWLEDGE 
VOICE
ACTION

Learn more about those guiding principles here. 

A number of action projects have also grown out of BYP since it's inception. Among them is the BYP100, a group of "100 black youth activists from across the country convened by the Black Youth Project to mobilize communities of color beyond electoral politics." 

"It is very important that the stories that we share are tied back to something that contributes to movement building" --Charlene Carruthers, #BYP100, MAPP Making Your Story webinar

See #BYP100 members respond to George Zimmerman's highly politicized 2013 acquittal below:  



Check out BYP's website, where you can learn about their research, action projects, and the BYP 100. 

You can also learn more about BYP on Facebook. 

Contributed by Liana Gamber-Thompson 

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