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The life and journalism career of Deborah Douglas led her to her role as co editor-in-chief of The Emancipator, a new website born amid the nationwide reckoning over race that followed the murder of George Floyd in 2020 and as the pandemic was underscoring persistent racial, economic, and health inequalities. “The Emancipator’s true north is democracy,” she says.
People are drawn to end places. Key West and Provincetown, for example, attract tourists not only due to their natural beauty but in the case of Key West, because itâs as far south as you can go in the continental United States. Provincetown, of course, is at the end of Cape Cod.
Penikese Island is another such end place. The last in a local chain known as the Elizabeth Islands, the tiny island was once considered far enough removed from civilization to serve as a leper colony and prior to that a natural history school. From the early 1970s to 2011 it was home to the Penikese Island School, an alternative treatment facility for troubled boys that used the islandâs remoteness to its advantage.