Post Hill Press's Bombardier Books is launching an imprint called Emancipation Books, which will "give a voice to black and minority authors--including conservatives, libertarians, traditional liberals, and iconoclasts--whose nonconforming views are seldom represented in mainstream media, and find themselves increasingly unwelcome at the larger publishing houses."
David S. Bernstein, founder of Bombardier Books, will lead Emancipation, too. "As one of the very small number of black Americans in the publishing industry, as well as a conservative, I've always been concerned about the lack of diversity reflected within editorial boards across New York," he said. "At Bombardier, we have made a concerted effort to publish a wide range of diverse voices--and have proven that we value not only diversity of skin color, ethnicity, and sexual orientation, but most importantly, diversity of ideas."
Emancipation's lead release is The 1776 Project from the Woodson Center, a collection of essays by writers and scholars that, Emancipation Press says, "counters the deeply flawed and biased 1619 Project from the New York Times." Other upcoming titles include What Do White Americans Owe Black People by Jason D. Hill; The Real Black Lives Matter Agenda by Charles Love; Behind the Black Mask from Gabriel Nadales; and Ghetto Mind by Daren Williams.
Post Hill publisher Anthony Ziccardi commented: "The launch of Emancipation Books gives stronger focus to an already established line within Post Hill, where we have a long history of publishing important books by diverse authors."