The Emancipator is an online newspaper on topics of racial justice, co-founded by Ibram X. Kendi of Boston University and Bina Venkataraman of The Boston Globe.
They received a budget from their institutions and sought new individual and foundation donors.
The name "The Liberator" had already been trademarked by a Christian nonprofit, so Kendi and Venkataraman chose "The Emancipator" based on another 19th-century abolitionist newspaper.
[1] The Emancipator was launched in April 2022, with journalists Deborah D. Douglas and Amber Payne as co-editors-in-chief.
[4] Venkataraman left the Globe at the end of 2022,[5] and Kendi's departure from Boston University was announced in January 2025.