Black voters have long been the backbone of the Democratic Party, but remain underrepresented in the rooms where campaign money, messaging and strategy are controlled.

In unveiling its 50th State of Black America report on July 30, the National Urban League asks, “Is the American Dream Dead?”

A new Brookings study shows that immigrants use less public support programs than U.S. citizens, despite being disproportionately more low-income. The study looked at programs like Supplemental Security Income, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), and Medicaid.

New Research: Immigrants Use Less Public Programs Than Citizens

A new Brookings study finds that non-citizens use less public support programs than U.S. citizens, despite being disproportionately more low income.  The study looked at programs like Supplemental Sec...

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Novels by Edwidge Danticat and Chang-rae Lee, biographies of Mahalia Jackson and Howard Zinn, history of Islamophobia, essays from Claudia Rankine, and more⁠.

An Emancipator investigation found about thirty percent of the highest-funded disability advocacy groups likely altered their public messaging around diversity, equity, and inclusion since President Trump took office.

As The Emancipator previously reported, researchers say racism helped lead to 1.63 million excess Black deaths over the last 22 years.

The Emancipator fact-checked trillionaire Elon Musk on his claims that he is not racist. Here are some reasons why the definition fits.

Austin police shot and killed Anthoneil Williams II, 17, last week. The police say they mistook his water bottle for a gun. This is the latest example of the perils of Black boyhood in a society that does not see their innocence.

Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., Wants to shut down 23 race-and ethnicity-based congressional caucuses, calling them a form of "segregation." House Democratic leadership and the heads of several of the groups called Mace's move "racist" and "shameless."

Thousands of Haitian and Syrians immigrants are set to lose their Temporary Protected Status. The upheaval is the result of last month’s Supreme Court decision allowing the Trump Administration to end the legal protection for those fleeing violence and natural disasters in their homelands.

As questions continue to surround the fatal Madison police shooting of 38-year-old Corey Ruiz, witness footage may provide key insight into what happened. Police say Ruiz injured an officer with a knife during a struggle while officers attempted to arrest him, prompting the officer to open fire.

Voto Latino and 50 other civil rights advocacy groups called for the impeachment of the Department of Homeland Security’s Secretary Markwayne Mullin in a letter to congressional leadership last week. Swipe through to read excerpts from the letter and why signatories say Congress must act.

Fort Butler Park and Historic Site was announced to be returned to the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians after the local town unanimously voted to restore ownership to the Indigenous people at no cost. theemancipator.org/2026/07/24/n...

Cherokee to Reclaim Trail of Tears Starting Point in North Carolina

A site where thousands of Native people were forced to leave their homeland as part of the deadly Trail of Tears will finally be returned to the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians.  Murphy, North Caroli...

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New data on California’s Black-Serving Institutions show a mixed bag of progress and shortfalls in the state’s attempts to serve Black college students.

New Dashboard Launched to Track Progress of Black Students at California's 'Black-Serving Institutions'

Researchers at the University of Southern California recently launched a dashboard using federal data from the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System to track Black student progress at Califor...

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For the first time this year, 815 Native Hawaiians and their families have been awarded land on Oahu. A ceremony was held late last week to award residential leases in Ewa, Waimanalo, and Nanakuli.

Charles Winters, a former Six Flags Magic Mountain employee, is suing the company, alleging racial discrimination, retaliation, wrongful termination, and defamation.

The Emancipator spoke with Ericka Hart, sex educator and author of NASTY WORK: Resist Systems, Explore Desire, and Liberate Yourself, about colorism, representation, and desirability politics, and why they were at the center of some of the biggest debates during the last season of Love Island.

Former NASA Administrator Charles Bolden Jr. grew up in segregated South Carolina. The retired U.S. Marine Corps major general became an astronaut in 1980, flew four space shuttle missions, and logged more than 680 hours in space.

New Trump administration changes to immigration law were written intentionally vague to give immigration officers broad room to reject Black and Brown individuals hoping to stay in the U.S.

New Immigration Policies Create Gray Areas That Target Black and Brown Immigrants

The Department of Homeland Security announced back-to-back changes to immigration laws in their ongoing effort to push Black and Brown immigrants out of the U.S.  Late last week, DHS reinstated a poli...

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Racial equity advocacy groups are calling for an independent investigation into longstanding reports of racial harassment against Black teachers in the Los Angeles Unified School District.⁠

Black adults faced higher mortality rates compared to their White counterparts due to health risks from racial disparities, according to a new study by researchers at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association in January.

Racism Helped Lead to 1.63 million Excess Black Deaths Over the Last 22 years, Researchers Say

Discrimination in housing, lack of educational access, inequitable healthcare and fewer economic opportunities have led to cumulative stressors which have had a devastating impact on Black people comp...

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Former NASA Administrator Charles Bolden Jr., the first Black person confirmed to lead the agency by the U.S. Senate, says humanity must explore space without repeating Earth’s colonial history. Read The Emancipators’ conversation with him at the link in our bio.

New Medicaid eligibility requirements require adults to prove they work at least 80 hours per month. This puts farmworkers at risk of losing their healthcare. Farmworkers typically have seasonal work, inconsistent hours, and frequent moves.

Civil rights advocates and the family of 18-year-old Daniel Erving are demanding murder charges and justice after two people were arrested three months after his death.

Breast cancer rates among Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) women have increased 50% since 2000. A new study by UC San Francisco found that Chinese women had the largest increase in breast cancer rates after adopting to U.S. lifestyles and culture.

World Cup matches have highlighted deeply entrenched anti-Black racist ideas, including from leaders of different countries.⁠ Many of the countries playing in this World Cup lived for centuries under White European colonial rule.

In one of the first studies to assess AI screening and hiring tools, researchers at Stanford University found that 15% of Asian applicants and 26% of Black applicants applied to jobs where the AI tool appeared to be biased against their racial group.

On July 3, Trump called it lies “that we live on stolen land or that our heroes were oppressors.” On July 4, a White House report denounced the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History for failing to deny the connections of “America’s Founders and Founding” to slavery.

A new study conducted by the Howard University Institute for Advanced Study found that 48 of the 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence, or nearly 86%, directly profited from slavery. This is seven more signers than previously known.