The Emancipator

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Why, and how, journalists must cover racism

2 weeks ago | theemancipator.org | Jamil Smith

It is impossible to watch, read, or otherwise consume the news of our day without recognizing that racism is in everything. Whether the coverage be about politics, the economy, sports, food, or (most certainly) civil rights, we simply must understand the individual bigotries, historical precedents, and structural discrimination that shape our lives as Americans and as citizens of the world.
What happens when oppression reaches a boiling point?

2 weeks ago | theemancipator.org | Chandelis Duster

President Donald Trump’s mobilization of the National Guard and military personnel against those resisting aggressive and oppressive deportation tactics in Los Angeles is part of an authoritarian playbook used to crush dissent and cow citizens into silent compliance. The protests in Los Angeles, San Francisco and across the U.S. in diverse Democratic-led cities, reflect growing outrage and frustration.
‘Latinx’ is a defiant act of world-building

2 weeks ago | theemancipator.org | David Bowles

Over the past decade, the gender-neutral term “Latinx” has come to be a tool of division. White Christian conservatives have sown discord over it, warning that “non-Hispanic” socialist intellectuals in the U.S. had invented the term — which, they argued, colonizes the Spanish language in an ironic act of cultural appropriation— to undercut the traditional values of the “Hispanic” community and promote a progressive “leftist” ideology.
Fact Check: Are White South African ‘refugees’ fleeing racial persecution?

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.
Disability rights activists and scholars warn of eugenics echoes in Trump administration health policies

1 month ago | theemancipator.org | Frankie Huang

President Donald Trump’s administration has laid siege to DEI programs and public health infrastructure and stacked key Cabinet positions overseeing the country’s health and well-being with anti-science cronies. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s regressive views on vaccines and neurodivergence echo eugenics ideals of a dark period in the nation’s history when those who were disabled were seen as defective, subjected to abusive medical procedures, and institutionalized.
Are political deals with the ‘devil’ essential to survival?

1 month ago | theemancipator.org | Chandelis Duster

It’s an age-old question: When faced with an onslaught of regressive and racist policies aimed at erasing hard-fought rights and the history of our struggles, how best can we resist and what does it mean to survive? The answers can be found in the wisdom of the abolitionist and civil rights forebears reenvisioned for a modern age. Some activists and leaders look toward the example of those who achieved progress by deftly code-switching to address both sides of the narrative.
Why 1963 was America's tipping point

1 month ago | theemancipator.org | Jamil Smith

“Independence Day” is a misnomer. I’ve argued previously that the true celebration should occur on June 19, to commemorate the day in 1865 when the last enslaved Black women, men, and children were liberated in Galveston, Texas, months before Congress ratified the 13th Amendment. Still, the United States didn’t become a functional and representative democracy, in any real sense, until President Lyndon Baines Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act into law on July 2, 1964.
Justice Department rolls back police reform days before George Floyd anniversary

1 month ago | theemancipator.org | Chandelis Duster

The Justice Department on Wednesday announced it is dismissing lawsuits against the Minneapolis and Louisville police departments, days before the fifth anniversary of George Floyd’s murder. The move ends yearslonginvestigations into several police departments, including the ones being probed for the murder of Floyd and the death of Breonna Taylor, who was killed by a Louisville police officer on March 13, 2020.
Fact Check: Are White South African ‘refugees’ fleeing racial persecution?

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.
Citizenship must remain our birthright

1 month ago | theemancipator.org | Jeff Yang

Editor’s Note: This story has updated to reflect the U.S. Supreme Court’s ongoing deliberation over whether lower court judges have the legal right to block President Trump’s executive orders from going into effect. One of the central pillars of what it means to be American is under attack. With a stroke of his pen, President Donald Trump in January issued an executive order that challenges the entitlement to citizenship of all those born within our nation’s borders, without favor or prejudice.