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.

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.

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.

Various missions, including within NASA’s Artemis program, aim to return humans to the lunar surface by the end of the decade and establish a long-term presence in the 2030s.

New State Department data shows that for seven months in a row, every one of the 7,605 refugees admitted to the U.S. has been a White South African.

The Emancipator is back! We launched on the eve of the nation's 250th birthday as mainstream media organizations spread racist propaganda. Like the anti-slavery newspapers of the 1820s, we return with a mission rooted in history and focused on an antiracist future.

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, in a concurring opinion for the court, wrote that the 14th Amendment was fundamentally about dismantling the nation’s caste system.

In a ruling issued on the eve of the 250th anniversary of America’s founding, the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected President Donald Trump’s racist attempt to end birthright citizenship. 🖋️ @chandelis.bsky.social

This Juneteenth, we're sharing a first look at the next chapter of The Emancipator ahead of our July 2 relaunch. Co-founder @ibramxk.bsky.social reflects on our new vision based on the criticality of antiracist journalists in this time of surging racism. Read more here: theemancipator.org

Here are six books by Indian authors who changed the way author Malavika Kannan sees the world and herself in it, which she recommends to readers seeking stories beyond the literary infrastructure of the West. Read more at the link in our bio.

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.⁠

The recent U.S. bombing of Iran appears to be part and parcel of a larger colonial project under the Trump administration. 🖊️ @chandelis.bsky.social @domesticpolichick.bsky.social @ibramxk.bsky.social

“Fear is a weapon of control. Rulers can leverage fear to thwart resistance,” writes @ibramxk.bsky.social, a National Book Award-winning historian and author of the new biography, “Malcolm Lives!” “The power of fear can cause people to fear their power.”⁠

The high court’s decision did not delve into the merits of the Trump administration’s legally questionable quest to end birthright citizenship, which was established by the 14th Amendment in a reversal of the Dred Scott decision, a ruling that barred Black people from obtaining citizenship.

In a dissent from the more liberal-leaning minority, Justice Sonia Sotomayor said the decision would “cause chaos for the families of all affected children.”

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. 🖊️ @chandelis.bsky.social @domesticpolichick.bsky.social

This tactic was on display during a congressional subcommittee hearing on Wednesday when Cato Institute expert Erec Smith testified that DEI principles fuel the notion that color blindness is racist.

This month as The Emancipator examines the idea of liberation and pride, we spoke with Kimberlé Crenshaw, an author, civil rights advocate, and critical race theorist about co-opting “woke” terminology, book bans, and the Trump administration’s attempts at cultural erasure.

Here is more on ways to protest and the First Amendment right to have your voice heard.

Trump is doubling down by threatening to use “very big force” against those who protest his military parade in Washington, D.C. The National Guard is also being deployed by Gov. Greg Abbott in Texas. Here is what to know about ways to protest and the First Amendment right to have your voice heard.

Racism is in everything — politics, the economy, sports, food, entertainment — but are journalists doing a sufficient job of covering it? Editor-in-Chief @jamilsmith.bsky.social ‬ spoke with Emancipator contributors about why journalists & media outlets must cover racism more intently & effectively.

The question for us all living in Trump’s America: what will you do in this crucible moment?

Rarely do presidents wield the ability to federally deploy the U.S. National Guard because of protests under the guise of what Trump calls “a form of rebellion against the authority of the Government of the United States.”

President Donald Trump’s mobilization of the National Guard and military personnel against those resisting aggressive and oppressive deportation tactics in Los Angeles is part of an authoritarian playbook used to crush dissent and cow citizens into silent compliance. @chandelis.bsky.social writes.