The Emancipator (website)
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The Emancipator is a planned newspaper on topics of racial justice, led by Ibram X. Kendi of Boston University and Bina Venkataraman of The Boston Globe.
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 Liberator" had already been trademarked by a Christian nonprofit, so Kendi and Venkataraman chose "The Emancipator" based on another 19th century abolitionist newspaper.[1]
References[]
- ^ a b Smith, Ben (March 21, 2021). "He Redefined 'Racist.' Now He's Trying to Build a Newsroom". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331.
Further reading[]
- Elkind, Elizabeth (March 18, 2021). "Why The Emancipator, a 19th-century antislavery newspaper, is getting a modern-day revival". CBS News. Retrieved March 28, 2021.
- Treisman, Rachel (March 16, 2021). "Venture Aims To 'Resurrect And Reimagine' Anti-Slavery Newspaper For The 21st Century". NPR.org. Retrieved March 28, 2021.
External links[]
- Newspapers published in Boston
- Anti-racism in the United States
- Newspapers established in the 21st century