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The Emancipator

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Boston University’s Center for Antiracist Research and The Boston Globe are collaborating to resurrect and reimagine The Emancipator, the first abolitionist newspaper in the United States, founded more than 200 years ago. The Emancipator is rooted in history and scholarship, bringing the current landscape of racial inequity and injustice into present-day context. By putting academic expertise into conversation with lived experiences, we showcase missing and underamplified voices — past and present — and what they reveal about the way forward.
Q&A with Deborah D. Douglas

Cornell William Brooks: You know we’re at war, right?

The Jan. 6 insurrection was the first volley in an act of civil war. It has been playing out, policy-wise and politically, ever since, says Harvard’s Cornell William Brooks.
Paul Lewis

Poetry and the struggle for justice

During the antebellum period, newspapers and magazines featured poems that advanced a wide range of causes, including women’s rights, peace, and temperance.
Announcing: The Emancipator
Reimagining 19th-century antislavery newspapers to reframe today's conversations on racial justice.

Announcing: The Emancipator

Reimagining 19th-century antislavery newspapers to reframe today's conversations on racial justice.
Amber Payne and Deborah D. Douglas on the goal of The Emancipator
The Emancipator's co-editors in chief discuss the publication's goals with columnist Kimberly Atkins Stohr.

Introducing: The Emancipator co-editors in chief

The Emancipator's co-editors in chief discuss the publication's goals with columnist Kimberly Atkins Stohr.

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Journalism and storytelling have been the foundation of progress throughout our nation's history. This collaboration between the Boston University Center for Antiracist Research and The Boston Globe Opinion team is a bold new platform for opinion and ideas journalism grounded in scholarship and data. Your charitable gift to Boston University for the purpose of supporting The Emancipator is an investment that will help to reframe the national conversation on racial justice. Please join us in this essential mission.

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Boston University's Center for Antiracist Research and The Boston Globe's Opinion team are collaborating to resurrect and reimagine The Emancipator, the first abolitionist newspaper in the United States, founded more than 200 years ago. The Emancipator is a collaboration between Boston University and The Boston Globe that is provided without a paywall.