Emerson Collective

Immigration

Family Portrait: José Rafael Patiño

In 2021 in America, this is what a family looks like. Meet José Patiño, a Dreamer from a mixed-status family in Arizona.
Immigration

Use Your Voice: Tell Your Representatives to Include a Path to Citizenship in the Budget Resolution

Call your senator today and ask that they include the #DreamandPromiseAct in budget reconciliation this fiscal year.
The New Yorker

Questlove’s “Summer of Soul” Pulses with Long-Silenced Beats

The music star’s directorial début, a documentary about the Harlem Cultural Festival of 1969, knits a wealth of unseen footage into a joyous whole.
Fellows Friday Series

We need to stop oversimplifying the situation at the border

Journalist Jonathan Blitzer discusses the nuance that gets lost in America’s conversation about immigration—and how the media must change.
Fellows Friday Series

How to tell the truth about our nation’s legacy of slavery

New York Times bestselling author and poet Clint Smith discusses his new book, How the Word is Passed, and sheds light on why we must understand our past in order to build a just future.
XQ America, Brandan ‘Bmike’ Odums, Trombone Shorty, Dee 1, Tank from Tank and the Bangas, and Edna Karr Marching Band came together in New Orleans to create ‘Graduation Energy,’—an anthem celebrating the Class of 2021
Dial Fellows

An economic lifeline for woman-owned businesses during the pandemic

Black women entrepreneurs were among the hardest hit economically by COVID-19. Here’s how HOPE Credit Union lent a supportive hand in the Deep South.
Dial Fellows

How a Polynesian voyager spent her year in lockdown

COVID-19 grounded the Polynesian Voyaging Society’s plans to circumnavigate the Pacific Ocean. Now, with the journey back on track, Dial Fellow Lehua Kamalu reflects on her year on dry land, and the new urgency of the sail ahead.
Emerson Collective Fellow

The Hands That Feed Us

The United States depends on undocumented immigrant farm workers to grow our food. Through photographs, Matt Black tells their stories.
Immigration

TX Gov. Greg Abbott Says State Will Build Its Own Border Wall

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott says the state will build its own border wall — here’s what’s wrong with that plan.
Equity & Justice

Texas Democrats Walk Out to Block Voter Suppression Bill

Texas House Democrats walked out of the Capitol to prevent Republicans from passing a restrictive new voting bill.

This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Priorities

Matt Black: The Hands That Feed Us

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