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A Word: Get Facts, Get Free: The Emancipator

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News, News Commentary, Politics

4.66K Ratings

🗓️ 2 January 2022

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Should journalists work to end American racism, not just report on it? That’s what the Boston Globe’s new project, The Emancipator, is making its mission. On today’s episode of A Word, Jason Johnson is joined by its co-editor-in-chief, Amber Payne. They discuss The Emancipator’s history, and its vision for an anti-racist American future. Guest: Amber Payne, co-editor in chief of The Emancipator at the Boston Globe Podcast production by Jasmine Ellis You can skip all the ads in A Word by joining Slate Plus. Sign up now at slate.com/awordplus for just $1 for your first month. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:04.8

your host, Jason Johnson. American journalists have done an uneven job and that's putting it

1:09.9

nicely and covering the persistence of racism. But now, the emancipator, a new media

1:15.0

operation, won't just explain racism. It's actually going to fight it.

1:19.5

In the more recent couple of years, I felt like, I'm going to have a perspective. I'm going

1:24.2

to take a side on this in some way. Take a side for humanity. And if I see that someone's

1:28.8

not on the side of humanity, I'm going to say something.

1:32.2

The emancipator and the future of anti-racist journalism coming up on a word with me, Jason

1:37.5

Johnson. Stay tuned.

1:41.0

Welcome to a word, a podcast about race, impolitics, and everything else. I'm your

1:47.9

host, Jason Johnson. The emancipator, an abolitionist newspaper, was born in the 19th century.

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