The Emancipator (website)

The Emancipator is an online newspaper on topics of racial justice, co-founded by Ibram X. Kendi of Boston University and Bina Venkataraman of The Boston Globe.

This article is about the 21st-century online newspaper. For the 19th-century newspaper, see The Emancipator (newspaper).

The Emancipator
Founder(s)Ibram X. Kendi and Bina Venkataraman
PublisherBoston University and The Boston Globe
Editor-in-chiefDeborah D. Douglas and Amber Payne
FoundedApril 2022 (2022-04)
HeadquartersBoston, MA
Websitetheemancipator.org

Development

Ibram X. Kendi of Boston University and Bina Venkataraman of The Boston Globe met during the 2020 American protests for racial justice and shared a mutual interest in Boston's 19th-century abolitionist newspapers. They discussed William Lloyd Garrison's The Liberator and what a contemporary iteration would be like, modeled on Garrison's urgency and anti-gradualist approach to abolition.[1]

In 2021, they began to assemble an online newspaper on the model of CBS's The 19th. They received a budget from their institutions and sought new individual and foundation donors. The name "The Liberator" had already been trademarked by a Christian nonprofit, so Kendi and Venkataraman chose "The Emancipator" based on another 19th-century abolitionist newspaper.[1]

The Emancipator was launched in April 2022, with journalists Deborah D. Douglas and Amber Payne as co-editors-in-chief.[2][3]

References
  1. Smith, Ben (March 21, 2021). "He Redefined 'Racist.' Now He's Trying to Build a Newsroom". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331.
  2. Alston, Paris; Siegel, Jeremy (April 29, 2022). "'An urgent moment': Why The Boston Globe and BU resurrected the abolitionist newspaper The Emancipator". Morning Edition. WGBH.
  3. Payne, Amber; Douglas, Deborah D. (April 24, 2022). "Editors' Letter: The Return of The Emancipator". BostonGlobe.com.

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