Halimah Abdullah

3 weeks ago | theemancipator.org | Chandelis Duster |Halimah Abdullah

President Donald Trump met with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on Wednesday in an uncomfortable exchange that highlighted racial and economic power dynamics. Their face-to-face unfolded roughly a week after the first group of White South Africans arrived in the U.S. under a fast-tracked refugee status.

1 month ago | theemancipator.org | Chandelis Duster |Halimah Abdullah

President Donald Trump is preparing to meet with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on Wednesday, roughly a week after the first group ofWhite South Africans arrived in the U.S. under a fast-tracked refugee status. This has allowed them to flee what Trump in an executive order called “government-sponsored race-based discrimination.” They skipped ahead of refugees from other countries — many of whom have fled ethnic and religious persecution — and who traditionally wait months for asylum.

Jan 20, 2025 | theemancipator.org | Halimah Abdullah

Martin Luther King Jr. looked out at a multihued gathering of revolutionaries when he delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on Aug. 28, 1963. A quarter of a million Black, Brown, and White Americans stood shoulder to shoulder on the National Mall’s grassy expanse as part of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. It was a testament to the transformative power of coalition, one that was sharply focused on dismantling inequity.

Jan 6, 2025 | theemancipator.org | Adrian Carrasquillo |Halimah Abdullah

Enfield, North Carolina, a small majority Black township about an hour’s drive from Raleigh, was once a “sundown town,” so named for the racist exclusion and terrorism of Black workers and residents after dark. It’s also Mayor Mondale Robinson’s hometown. In 2022, inspired by the Black-led political activism and national backlash against symbols of oppression, Robinson, the grandson of a sharecropper, razed a Confederate statue in town. He livestreamed it himself as the bulldozer did its work.

Dec 21, 2024 | theemancipator.org | Halimah Abdullah

Trigger warning: This post contains information about sexual assault that some readers may find disturbing. On the morning that I was sexually assaulted, just over a year ago, I stared up at the curve of blue sky through the window above the bed — a mere fractal of an expanse that for me had once yielded such boundless promise.