Culture Archives - Page 8 of 8 - The Emancipator

From left, Daniel Kaluuya, Keke Palmer and Brandon Perea in "Nope."

‘Nope’ reveals Black family working to defeat the threat that hovers over daily life

by Ja’nell N. Ajani and The Emancipator August 1, 2022December 20, 2024

A Black man is seen wearing a rainbow flag over his head during the 24th Belgian Pride parade in Brussels in 2019.

What’s beyond Pride Month? Black Pride.

by Derrick Clifton July 4, 2022January 14, 2025

"We Refuse to Forget: A True Story of Black Creeks, American Identity, and Power" by Caleb Gayle

Books

We cannot repair what we refuse to remember

by Nia T. Evans and The Emancipator June 13, 2022December 20, 2024

Joel Christian Gill

Everything’s Racist Comic: Dewey Decimal System

by Joel Christian Gill and The Emancipator May 3, 2022December 20, 2024

Artist Christian Robinson represents the newest generation of children’s book authors and illustrators giving hope for the kind of inclusion kids deserve. He illustrated Traci N. Todd's “Nina: A Story of Nina Simone” (G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers), a 2022 Coretta Scott King Book Award Honoree.

Books

Children’s books need to watch their (skin) tone

by Emily Gowen and The Emancipator April 29, 2022December 20, 2024

Overall view of 3 teenage former residents looking up the road at the one-room schoolhouse in Nicodemus, Kansas, the oldest all-black town west of the Mississippi. Nicodemus, the only surviving settlement founded by formerly enslaved Black people known as "exodusters" in the 1870s, now has no Black farmers actively farming the land.

Books

Book excerpt: ‘The Price For Their Pound of Flesh’

by Daina Ramey Berry and The Emancipator April 24, 2022December 20, 2024

Lisa Todd Wexley (Nicole Ari Parker), a Black woman whom Charlotte (Kristin Davis) befriends in HBO Max’s first season of "And Just Like That," standing with a Deborah Roberts mixed media collage in the background. According to Roberts, her work challenges notions of “ideal beauty,” and she often features children navigating complicated American and African American narratives.

When being seen is not enough

by Lise Ragbir and The Emancipator April 24, 2022December 20, 2024

Everything’s Racist Comic: Black History Month

Everything’s Racist comic: Black History Month

by Joel Christian Gill and The Emancipator April 24, 2022December 20, 2024

Color of Change president Rashad Robinson, former president of NAACP Cornell William Brooks, and cofounder and executive director of Black Voters Matter Cliff Albright are arrested the Capitol Police during a “Brothers Day of Action on Capitol Hill” protest outside the Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill in July.

Poetry and the struggle for justice

by Paul Lewis and The Emancipator January 5, 2022December 20, 2024