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Education | Jaclyn Friedman
‘Parents’ rights’ as a red herring
The common thread through grievances around masking, vaccines, CRT, and trans kids in sports is clear: this astroturf movement wants to “defund government education.”

VIDEO | William Horne
We’ve Been Here Before: Insurrections and White Supremacy
As we remember and assess the damage of the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection on America today, it’s valuable to take a hard look at the impact and consequences that white conservative election denialism played in our shared history.

Culture | Phillipe Copeland
The art of the denial
Racism denial is a political strategy and a coping tool, used by those who benefit from racism and those unwilling to confront the dire contradictions in our society. Phillipe Copeland walks us through its different forms so we can recognize and counter them.

Year-in-review
Justice Dictionary 2022
To tackle pressing social problems, we first need the language to describe them. Here are concepts and takeaways amplified this year by contributors to The Emancipator.

Health | V. Jo Hsu
We might be over the pandemic, but it’s not over us
We cannot abandon millions plagued by long COVID, whose symptoms can include difficulty breathing, cognitive dysfunction, and fatigue that interferes with everyday activity — disproportionately hurting marginalized people.

Culture | Audra Simpson
Indigenous identity theft must stop
Once again, a scholar vaulted to a position of power and influence through a claimed Indigenous descent has been revealed to be a White woman. The overdue embrace of Native voices is being co-opted while real Native women still suffer, facing a disproportionate number of murders and disappearances.

The Talk | Kristen Pope
Lily’s big hair day
For the last year of pre-kindergarten, my daughter, Lily, has thrived as the only Black child in her entire school, where her teachers and school administrators love her, care for her, and support her. But there have been some bumps that mostly involved race; one instance was related to her hair.

Culture | May-lee Chai
Remembering Vincent: The unsilenced
I remember when Vincent Chin was murdered in the summer of 1982. I was horrified that two White men had beaten Vincent to death in public in front of witnesses. It showed me the kind of power White men had in America. They could kill a Chinese man with impunity.

Throughline | Kellie Carter Jackson
Lincoln gets way too much credit for freeing enslaved Black people
For decades, historians have argued for the agency of Black Americans in securing their own liberation during the Civil War.

THE BIG PICTURE | KIMBERLY ATKINS STOHR
We can solve the racial wealth gap
“Where is the money?” abolitionist Maria Stewart asked in the 1800s. We’re still asking.

THROUGHLINE | Ibram X. Kendi, Bina Venkataraman, Peniel Joseph, Sewell Chan, and S. Mitra Kalita
The Emancipator reimagines
Selections from abolitionist papers on their first day of publishing.

COMICS | Josh Neufeld
Clean Slate: A Student Debt Forgiveness Story
Is student loan forgiveness a real thing? In this comic, Samuel Autman reveals his journey to find out if its true — or not.