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Race, Rights and Power: What’s at Stake in the 2026 Midterm Elections
Millions of voters head to the polls in little less than a month in a pivotal election that could determine the future of policies that have disproportionately harmed Black and Brown communities.
My Founding Father
I dream of my late father nightly. Memories preserved as if in amber. The way he would light up with joy and genuine amazement at sometimes the simplest moment, innovations, and revelations. The way our eyes would meet as if we both knew the thing we were witnessing was utterly ridiculous, and we’d chuckle together. No words spoken. But the memories I keep coming back to are at the beginning of my life and the end of his. He was there when I drew my first breath and I was there when he drew his last.
Births of a Nation: Black maternal mortality and American indifference
By Rachel Hardeman I gave a keynote on the Black maternal mortality crisis in a room full of hundreds of people. I had shared data. I had shared stories. I had read aloud from the memoir of Harriet Jacobs, an enslaved Black mother. “I had prayed for his death, but never so earnestly as I now prayed for his life; and my prayer was heard.
My Founding Father
I dream of my late father nightly. Memories preserved as if in amber. The way he would light up with joy and genuine amazement at sometimes the simplest moment, innovations, and revelations. The way our eyes would meet as if we both knew the thing we were witnessing was utterly ridiculous, and we’d chuckle together. No words spoken. But the memories I keep coming back to are at the beginning of my life and the end of his. He was there when I drew my first breath and I was there when he drew his last.
Was bombing Iran part of Trump’s neocolonial project?
The recent U.S. bombing of Iran appears to be part and parcel of a larger colonial project under the Trump administration. With high-profile efforts to colonize Canada and Greenland effectively serving as distractions, the United States appears to be engaged in the recolonization of the Global South. It is using military interventions, tariffs, and travel bans to reassert U.S. power and neocolonial subjugation.
Breaking: SCOTUS hands Trump more power weeks after ‘No Kings’ protests
Editor’s Note: This story was updated to reflect the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision limiting judges’ ability to delay President Donald Trump’s executive orders from going into effect. One of the central pillars of what it means to be American is under attack. In a potential blow to the fight to protect birthright citizenship, the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday limited judges’ ability to delay President Donald Trump’s executive orders from going into effect.
Fact Check: Are White South African ‘refugees’ fleeing racial persecution?
President Donald Trump met with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on Wednesday in an uncomfortable exchange that highlighted racial and economic power dynamics. Their face-to-face unfolded roughly a week after the first group of White South Africans arrived in the U.S. under a fast-tracked refugee status.
Fact Check: Are White South African ‘refugees’ fleeing racial persecution?
President Donald Trump is preparing to meet with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on Wednesday, roughly a week after the first group ofWhite South Africans arrived in the U.S. under a fast-tracked refugee status. This has allowed them to flee what Trump in an executive order called “government-sponsored race-based discrimination.” They skipped ahead of refugees from other countries — many of whom have fled ethnic and religious persecution — and who traditionally wait months for asylum.
'Sinners' and the beautiful struggle to belong and survive
As a descendant daughter of the Mississippi Delta, Ryan Coogler’s new film “Sinners” touched an ancestral chord in my spirit in one particularly euphoric dance scene in which Black and Brown bodies of past, present, and future moved in transcendent communion. Long-buried memories from decades past came rushing back in breathtaking clarity.
Belonging starts with a declaration
We are bound through roots, soil, blood, and flesh to indelible ancestral strands that anchor us. And yet, our sense of belonging is also, at times, a fragile and amorphous thing made of shifting connections that continuously evolve, transform, and are born anew. In this time of upheaval and uncertainty, our notions of belonging are being disrupted.
Our children are not pawns in Trump’s authoritarian power grab
President Donald Trump is escalating his McCarthy-esque ideological witch hunt against educators and federally funded programs that seek to ensure all of the nation’s learners have equitable access to what they need to succeed. His latest move, according to an executive order draft, is to “take all necessary steps” to effectively neuter the Department of Education.
The real reason Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, sparks outrage
Ever since she dared to wed England’s “most eligible bachelor,”Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, has faced an unending barrage of vile and vitriolic ad hominem attacks. Her attackers are largely White female social media influencers of a certain ilk, patriarchy-promoting media outlets, and bigots on both sides of the pond. The so-called criticism levied against her peddles in both “angry” and “uppity” Black woman likability stereotypes and hypersexualized Jezebel tropes.
Rep. Ayanna Pressley on race, justice, and the fight for all of our freedoms
U.S. Rep. Ayanna Pressley’s SXSW sit-down with The Emancipator’s publisher, Amber Payne, was an intimate glimpse into what it is like to grow up as a child forged in resistance and become a legislator whose North Star is firmly on justice for marginalized people and causes. Her guidance on resisting tyranny, drawing on ancestral wisdom, using one’s talents for righteous fights, and radically claiming joy, were prescriptions for anyone seeking to choose community over chaos.
The resistance was televised.
What happens during a revolution’s delicate infancy? In order to thrive, a fledgling rebellion must be nourished with a careful diet of organic passion, fortified revolt, and well-measured organization. But whose passion and from what source? And what type of resistance will best help the revolution thrive?
When the system is rigged, resist
When the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), the nefarious shadow group leading our nation’s descent into its current Orwellian political nightmare, demanded access to the U.S. Agency for International Development’s personnel files and classified security systems earlier this month, two federal workers refused to let them in.
How can Black and Brown communities combine their collective might for the fight ahead?
Martin Luther King Jr. looked out at a multihued gathering of revolutionaries when he delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on Aug. 28, 1963. A quarter of a million Black, Brown, and White Americans stood shoulder to shoulder on the National Mall’s grassy expanse as part of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. It was a testament to the transformative power of coalition, one that was sharply focused on dismantling inequity.
The all-American violence of the Jan. 6 insurrection
Enfield, North Carolina, a small majority Black township about an hour’s drive from Raleigh, was once a “sundown town,” so named for the racist exclusion and terrorism of Black workers and residents after dark. It’s also Mayor Mondale Robinson’s hometown. In 2022, inspired by the Black-led political activism and national backlash against symbols of oppression, Robinson, the grandson of a sharecropper, razed a Confederate statue in town. He livestreamed it himself as the bulldozer did its work.
My antiracist journalism journey: How I lost my wings, then reclaimed my sky
Trigger warning: This post contains information about sexual assault that some readers may find disturbing. On the morning that I was sexually assaulted, just over a year ago, I stared up at the curve of blue sky through the window above the bed — a mere fractal of an expanse that for me had once yielded such boundless promise.
Demographics are not destiny
Exit polling data from the 2024 presidential election is much like “The Matrix,” in a sense: a flow of numbers that, when viewed properly, offers a revealing portrait of the American electorate and a narrative of stark racial divisions and fueled recriminations among communities of color.
Democracy in darkness: American voters choose Donald Trump, again
Former President Donald Trump, appealing almost exclusively to the nativist sentiments, defeated Vice President Kamala Harris on Tuesday, bringing to a swift close a compressed election contest that exposed and exploited raw divisions over identity. As of this writing, 71,775,100 Americans cast ballots for Trump and he received 277 electoral votes, according to the Associated Press. By contrast, Harris received 66,894,178 votes and 224 electoral votes.
5 Black Presidential Candidates Who Paved the Way for Kamala Harris Original
In 1848, Frederick Douglass was the very first Black candidate to receive a nominating bid for the American presidency. He received one vote. Over the next 100 years, Black presidential hopefuls — particularly those with connections to the two major parties — would eke out symbolic victories and break barriers.
Why do we keep expecting White women to vote differently?
As the U.S. Supreme Court’s conservatives prepared to overturn Roe v. Wade and eliminate the federal right to abortion, thousands of White women stood shoulder to shoulder in solidarity with women of color and their allies — many of them waving signs and chanting both at the black metal gates of the White House and the Supreme Court’s ivory steps. For a moment, it seemed as if female voters had a seminal moment of solidarity. The Dobbs v.
How Haitian Immigrants Are Fighting Back Against Trump and Vance’s Smears
They’ve filed criminal charges. They’re talking to the media. They’ve spoken out at the U.N. And they’re organizing politically. As anti-Haitian rhetoric and lies continue to spread, sparking violence and intimidation against immigrants from the overwhelmingly Black country, they and their allies are fighting back. Even as former President Donald Trump and his running mate, Ohio Sen.
Haitian American Group Demands Retraction of Trump’s Statements
Haitian-American community leaders and organizations rebuked former President Donald Trump and his running mate, Ohio Sen. JD Vance, for repeating false claims this week that Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, are eating household pets and demanded a retraction of the statements.
Haitian American Group Demands Retraction of Trump’s Statements
Haitian-American community leaders and organizations rebuked former President Donald Trump and his running mate, Ohio Sen. JD Vance, for repeating false claims this week that Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, are eating household pets and demanded a retraction of the statements.
Lisa Blunt Rochester Seeks to Become 4th Black Woman to Serve in the U.S. Senate Original
U.S. Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester often holds a large scarf imprinted with a highly symbolic and historic document as she campaigns to become the fourth Black woman ever elected to the U.S. Senate. The document on the scarf is a Reconstruction-era voting oath signed by her great-great-great grandfather, a formerly enslaved man. She had the scarf during her swearing-in when she made history in 2017 as the first Black person and first woman elected as Delaware’s sole representative to the U.S. House.
Extreme anti-gay legislation has much of Uganda's LGBTQ community living in fear
For Uganda's LGBTQ community, the threat of harsh anti-gay legislation is forcing many into hiding and has left some facing unbearable choices about their future there. Copyright 2023 NPR
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