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Have an idea for The Emancipator? We want to hear it.
The Emancipator is a digital magazine that reframes conversations and seeks solutions to racial inequity and accountability through original and in-depth reporting, evidence-based commentary, first-person essays, untold histories, and narrative features.
We’re looking for engaging stories told through a race-and-equity lens that challenge conventional wisdom and mainstream narratives.
We cover a range of topics, including:
- Climate justice and environmental racism
- Health access inequities and impacts
- Digital divides and technological discrimination
- Politics and policy, and its impact on communities of color
- Educational inequities and disparities
- Exploration, examination, and celebration of arts, culture, and race
What makes an Emancipator story?
Essays detailing personal experiences centering on race and equity. We’re looking for a maximum of 800 words here.
Cultural criticism, political analysis, and explainers that include firsthand and secondhand reporting to explore a given topic through a racial framework. Here, we want a range of 800 to 1,000 words.
In-depth stories utilizing firsthand and secondhand reporting that examine the impact of race and equity on the intersection of people, politics, and policies. We’re looking for a minimum of 1,000 words for most of these, but that will be on a case-by-case basis.
We pay competitively, but please know that the final rates will be at the discretion of the editorial staff.
The Emancipator