First-Person Archives

Photo of students at Beijing Normal University returning to campus May 7, 1918

Generations

With violent revolutions, hope comes requisite with horror

by Frankie Huang February 28, 2025March 13, 2025

For the granddaughter of Chinese revolutionaries, resistance exacted a heavy toll on family legacy

Movements

How can Black and Brown communities combine their collective might for the fight ahead?

by Halimah Abdullah January 20, 2025January 29, 2025

First-Person

My antiracist journalism journey: How I lost my wings, then reclaimed my sky

by Halimah Abdullah December 21, 2024January 9, 2025

Illustration of an orange-skinned man with his back turned, stepping on an American flag looking at dark shapes under the moon on the horizon, with a barbed-wire fence in-between them.

Elections

What ‘Americans only’ really means

by Jean Guerrero November 2, 2024December 20, 2024

First-Person

Journalism isn’t dying, but its institutions always seem to be

by Frank Shyong October 30, 2024December 20, 2024

First-Person

Roxane’s got a gun

by Frankie Huang September 19, 2024December 20, 2024

Illustration depicting a Black woman with round glasses, hoop earrings, and an afro, reading The Emancipator, an antiracist abolitionist paper from the 19th century.

First-Person

We urgently need more antiracist journalism. Here is how we’ll play our part.

by Jamil Smith March 9, 2024December 20, 2024

Education

Claudine Gay and the Black girlboss paradox

by Kimberly Bryant January 9, 2024December 20, 2024

Amanda Joy Calhoun speaks at a Black Lives Matter protest of medical professionals against racism in medicine.

Health equity

A patient called me a racial slur. Unfortunately, my experience is universal.

by Amanda Joy Calhoun December 13, 2023December 20, 2024

First-Person

Meet Jamil Smith: Three questions with The Emancipator’s new editor-in-chief

by Alex LaSalvia November 13, 2023December 20, 2024

Category: First-Person

With violent revolutions, hope comes requisite with horror

How can Black and Brown communities combine their collective might for the fight ahead?

My antiracist journalism journey: How I lost my wings, then reclaimed my sky

What ‘Americans only’ really means

Journalism isn’t dying, but its institutions always seem to be

Roxane’s got a gun

We urgently need more antiracist journalism. Here is how we’ll play our part.

Claudine Gay and the Black girlboss paradox

A patient called me a racial slur. Unfortunately, my experience is universal.

Meet Jamil Smith: Three questions with The Emancipator’s new editor-in-chief

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