The next chapter
Since launching as a newsletter in 2021, The Emancipator has evolved into the nation’s leading news magazine focused on solutions to racial inequity. In partnership with a diverse and fast-growing community, we’ve critically covered racism by challenging harmful narratives, amplifying underrepresented voices, and sparking vital conversations about how we move toward a more just and equitable future.
As we transition to a new home at Howard University, we’re deeply proud of what we’ve built with you and look forward to the next phase of our journey. Stay connected. Sign up for our newsletter, follow our social media channels, and check out our website for updates. In a time when so much is at stake, it’s important that we stay focused on the mission. The fight for racial justice continues, and so will we.
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‘Holler, Child’ is a blunt look at the lives of Black Texans
Latoya Watkin’s collection of short stories tackles generations of struggles, strife, and sacrifice.
Honoring legacy building work.
NINE PIECES THAT SHAPE OUR VOICE
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Essays and arguments that confront race and racism, now and in the future
Malcolm X’s fearlessness lives
Despite Trump’s attempts to stoke fear, every day Americans are carrying on Malcolm’s legacy of resistance.
Series
After affirmative action
The 2023 Supreme Court decision banning colleges and universities from considering race in admissions upended the lives of high school seniors applying to college and of school administrators reckoning with an uncertain new educational and legal terrain. And it has far-reaching implications for both education and society.
Busing at fifty
In June 1974, a judge ruled that the Boston School Committee had willfully segregated Boston Public Schools.
The Boston “busing crisis,” was marked by court-ordered desegregation efforts that led to widespread protests and violence. On the 50th anniversary of the federal ruling, we explore the effects on public education, community relations, and demographics.
The ‘talk’
Identity shapes what we tell our children and ourselves about keeping safe in a society gripped by culture wars and deeply entrenched racism. Our 2023 Edward R. Murrow Award-winning series features difficult conversations taking place in the homes of marginalized families, through the lens of ethnicity, ability, sexuality, immigration status, and gender.
Ban the bans
Book banning and censorship have been lightning rod issues in communities nationwide, with much attention focused on schools and public libraries. However, prisons actually represent the largest source of book censorship in the country. Our 2024 Edward R. Murrow Award-winning series features three gripping personal essays by incarcerated writers.
Reporting on systems of racial inequity and investigating how to break them
Was bombing Iran part of Trump’s neocolonial project?
The U.S. is using military interventions, tariffs, and travel bans to reassert U.S. power and neocolonial subjugation.
VIDEO
This Land is Our Land | Austin’s Freedom Towns
After emancipation, over 550 Black settlements emerged across Texas, offering safe havens for formerly enslaved folks seeking independence and liberation from oppression known as Freedom Towns. Over the years, gentrification, cultural erasure, natural disasters, and land dispossession have threatened the very existence of these precious communities.
Stories we tell through books, TV, film, comics, sports and other popular culture
Six liberating narratives by Indian authors
The book recommendations are for readers seeking transformative stories beyond the literary infrastructure of the West.
Untold histories, past lives, and stories that point us toward an antiracist future
Frederick Douglass’ anti-slavery speech remains relevant
The abolitionist’s fiery message for America still resonates.
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