The Emancipator

Similar to how 19th-century antislavery publications helped to reshape and promote the fight for abolition, The Emancipator focuses on important perspectives, discussions, and research-driven opinions to change the national dialogue on racial equity and promote a fairer society for all. Our platform brings together journalists, scholars, and community members to engage in meaningful conversations. We highlight voices that have often been overlooked in history and today, showing how their insights can guide us toward a better future.

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For some Black landowners, 40 acres and a nightmare.

1 week ago | theemancipator.org | Chandelis Duster

Derrick Williamson says that when the Hardee family promised to give him 40 acres of land in Morgan County, Georgia, in June 2021, he thought his dream of opening an animal sanctuary had come true. He hewed wood and tilled soil, filled his biblically referenced animal sanctuary, The Way Dynamic Animal Therapy Encounters, with more than 100 animals, including sloths and wallabies, built enclosures, and made improvements — all of which increased the property value.
In ‘My Pisces Heart,’ a Black expatriate finds an imperfect community

2 weeks ago | theemancipator.org | Jenny Shank

Jennifer Neal began packing moving boxes early in her life when her father’s career ambitions prompted repeated relocations across the U.S. “Approximately every three years,” Neal writes, “I could become someone else.” After college, Neal taught English in Japan, and while there, she began to envision her adulthood as an expatriate.
Nikita Redkar is ‘yassifying’ the news so you’ll pay attention

4 weeks ago | theemancipator.org | Frankie Huang

Social media creator Nikita Redkar’s aesthetics and delivery style are part of a satirical “bimbofication” niche exemplified by a hyperbolic, hyper-feminized performance of being hot and dumb. Think Elle Woods from “Legally Blonde” or Ziwe Fumudoh, whose personas turn negative feminine stereotypes on their heads while looking fabulous.
ICE’s latest 'collateral arrests' are part of our nation’s legacy of racist immigration policies

1 month ago | theemancipator.org | Frankie Huang

On the campaign trail, Donald Trump vowed “mass deportations.” As president, he unleashed Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on cities with dense and racially diverse migrant populations to round up anyone suspected of breaking laws. Black and Brown people — a number of them in the country legally — have been recklessly profiled.
You’re funny. For a woman

1 month ago | theemancipator.org | Frankie Huang

Women of color are often forced to navigate hostile environments in which their humor and mirth are scrutinized through sexist and racist lenses. Historically, this meant compromising either mass appeal or genuine expression. Jackie “Moms” Mabley, the trailblazing female Black comedian born at the tail end of the 19th century, delivered jokes on edgier matters by packaging her on-stage persona into a nonthreatening bedraggled granny in a floppy hat.
Navigating humor as a woman of color is an imperfect and empowering journey

1 month ago | theemancipator.org | Zoe Si

Before becoming a Pulitzer Prize-nominated cartoonist, Zoe Si was a lawyer. As a small, Asian Canadian woman, she wasn’t always made to feel she belonged in a field dominated by White men. People would look at her, and immediately put her in a box made of Asian stereotypes. In her new original comic for The Emancipator, Si looks back at dealing with the stress of law school as a 20-year-old.
With violent revolutions, hope comes requisite with horror

1 month ago | theemancipator.org | Frankie Huang

The month my yeye passed, he complained that he couldn’t sleep. “Too many ghosts in the room.”My father’s father was a prolific writer and an extrovert whose constant stream of chatter never ceased. However, one subject he never delved into was what he did as a regional spymaster during the Chinese resistance against Japanese imperialism in the 1930s. My father was able to piece together parts of the narrative through conversations with people who knew my yeye better. He operated behind enemy lines.
‘Fight to Win!’ kids get schooled in starting good trouble

1 month ago | theemancipator.org | Frankie Huang

Kim Kelly, a labor journalist and author, had no idea “Fight to Win!: Heroes of American Labor,” a book on labor movements for young readers would publish during the early days of a chaotic second Donald Trump presidency. Set to release in May, the author of the critically acclaimed “Fight Like Hell: The Untold History of American Labor” doesn’t exactly expect any invitations to promote her book at the U.S. Department of Labor.
‘We've been essentially muzzled’: Education Department halts thousands of civil rights investigations under Trump

1 month ago | theemancipator.org | Jennifer Richards |Jodi S. Cohen

Overview: This story was first published in ProPublica, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive their biggest stories as soon as they’re published. Since Donald Trump returned to the presidency, investigations by the agency that handles allegations of civil rights violations in the nation’s schools and colleges have ground to a halt.
‘Latinx’ is a defiant act of world-building

2 months 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.