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Reframing the conversation on racial justice and equity.

A collaboration with The Boston Globe and Boston University's Center for Antiracist Research

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Throughline | Jeffrey Boutwell
Time for a New Emancipation Proclamation
The dynamics of how best to maximize Black voting power remain the same as they were on Great Emancipation Day 1903 when William Monroe Trotter and former Massachusetts Gov. George S. Boutwell, an architect of the U.S. Constitution’s 14th and 15th amendments, called for a New Emancipation Proclamation.

Throughline | Kimberly Atkins Stohr
Jan. 6 committee leaves crucial lessons about race unspoken
The most striking thing about Monday’s final public meeting of the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol was what wasn’t said.

Throughline | Paul Lewis
Poetry and the struggle for justice
Early American abolitionists used the storytelling artistry of poetry as a way to dismantle White supremacist thinking. Paul Lewis dissects an 1820 poem published in the original Emancipator called “Far in a gloomy desart, waste and wild.”

Throughline | J. Michael Martinez
Under my skin
This Veterans Day, J. Michael Martinez writes about how the U.S. treats its veterans and anybody caught in the crossfire of its wars. Born with a skin defect inherited from his father, Martinez tells his story about Agent Orange and its generational effects.

Throughline | Kimberly Atkins Stohr
The (unheard) case of American Samoa
American Samoans’ status as U.S. nationals, not citizens, is rooted in racism, but many territory residents think citizenship could also threaten the American Samoan way of life. And what about independence?