South Seattle Emerald
Founder(s)Marcus Harrison Green, Bridgette Hempstead
PresidentMichael McPhearson[1]
Managing editorRosette Royale[2]
HeadquartersSeattle, Washington
Websitesouthseattleemerald.com

The South Seattle Emerald is Southern Seattle’s only nonprofit, reader-supported, and community operated media and news outlet.[3] It is an online newspaper that is focused on Seattle's South End Neighborhoods, South King County, Washington, and stories throughout the region that are important to BIPOC and working class people. Founded in 2014 by Marcus Harrison Green, and founding board member Bridgette Hempstead, South Seattle Emerald has always been a free nonprofit news website.[4] Created to show that that the Southend, as Marcus Green put it, “is more than just the crime section in the Seattle Times.”[5]

The paper relies on community volunteers, both writers and photographers to report the news. It largely utilizes BIPOC authors.

Community partnerships

The South Seattle Emerald partnered with The International Examiner to create content to address Anti-Asian Racism. The project ran from January through August of 2022, and was comprised or both literary and visual art.[6]

Starting in 2021 The South Seattle Emerald has been partnering with Pogo Poetry to publish one poem by a young author a month.[7] In 2022 Washington State's Echo Glenn Youth Facility partnered with Pogo Poetry to bring a creative writing program to their young inmates, as of July 6 2022 three poems written by young people incarcerated in Echo Glenn were published in the South Seattle Emerald.[8]

Publications

The South Seattle Emerald has published to anthologies of their reporting, Emerald Reflections: A South Seattle Emerald Anthology (both 1 & 2).[9][10][11]

Focus on Racial Justice

According to founder Marcus Harrison Green the journalism that put the Emerald on the map was their coverage of the No New Youth Jail movement.[12] An abolitionist movement focused on King County's plan to build a new Children and Family Justice Center to incarcerate youth.

The Emerald has been a pivotal publication during Seattle's Black Lives Matter movement, and other anti-racist movements in the region. During the occupation of Seattle's Capitol Hill Neighborhood during the George Floyd Uprising, The South Seattle Emerald is where organizers posted their perspective,[13] and is often quoted multiple times in academic articles about the CHOP.[14]

The South Seattle Emerald is also where anti-caste activist published their case for the importance of anti-caste legislation in Seattle,[15] days before a city ordinance was passed.[16]

References

  1. ↑ "Black-led media are seeing a resurgence in Seattle but 'we're so much further back than we used to be'". The Seattle Times. 2022-06-18. Retrieved 2023-11-08.
  2. ↑ "South Seattle Emerald Welcomes Rosette Royale as New Managing Editor". Converge Media. Retrieved 2023-11-07.
  3. ↑ "South Seattle Emerald: Contact Information, Journalists, and Overview | Muck Rack".
  4. ↑ "'We just dove in headfirst': The South Seattle Emerald celebrates 7 years". The Seattle Times. 2021-05-04. Retrieved 2023-11-06.
  5. ↑ Hanscom, Greg. "Marcus Green is giving South Seattle a voice | Crosscut". crosscut.com. Retrieved 2023-11-08.
  6. ↑ Examiner, The International (2021-12-20). "IE and South Seattle Emerald team up in 2022 to produce content addressing issues of anti-Asian racism". International Examiner. Retrieved 2023-11-07.
  7. ↑ Shimeles, Nebeu (2022-01-05). "Check Out Pongo Youth Poetry in the South Seattle Emerald". Pongo Poetry Project. Retrieved 2023-11-08.
  8. ↑ "Department of Children, Youth & Families". DCYF. Retrieved 2023-11-08.
  9. ↑ "A New Anthology Celebrates Seattle's Underrepresented South End". Seattle Weekly. 2016-10-26. Retrieved 2023-11-08.
  10. ↑ Harrison Green, Marcus. "Emerald Reflections: A South Seattle Emerald Anthology".
  11. ↑ Harrison Green, Marcus. "Emerald Reflections 2: A South Seattle Emerald Anthology".
  12. ↑ "Q&A With South Seattle Emerald Founder Marcus Harrison Green". Seattle Weekly. 2016-05-04. Retrieved 2023-11-08.
  13. ↑ "OPINION: CHOP Not the Beginning, and it's Not the End". South Seattle Emerald. July 2, 2020.
  14. ↑ Jayne, Evan. Capitol Hill and the Organized Protest: Gauging Capitol Hill Residents' Responses to and Understandings of the Capitol Hill Organized Protest (Thesis). University of Chicago.
  15. ↑ "OPINION | Confessions of an American Caste Traitor". South Seattle Emerald. February 18, 2023.
  16. ↑ Poojit Hegde. Unity and Struggle Beyond Borders: An Examination of Anti-Hindutva Activism in the United States. Stanford University. May 22, 2023.
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