Published May 26, 2025
By North Star Editorial Staff
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Key Facts about The North Star Editorial
When we named this platform North Star Editorial, we did so with conviction. We believed in serving as a guiding light through the darkness of injustice; a place for truth, clarity, and collective healing — Founded in Minnesota.
What we did not realize, at the time, was just how directly our mission echoes one of the most powerful voices in Black history: The Honorable Frederick Douglass.
In 1847, Douglass — once a captive, then self-emancipated, and later a world-renowned orator and abolitionist of captivity and slave labor — founded a newspaper in Rochester, New York. He called it The North Star. His motto was as loving as it was humble:
“Right is of no sex — Truth is of no color — God is the Father of us all, and we are all brethren.”
His mission? To expose the brutal realities of captivity which was fueling slave labor for the benefit of white and indigenous settlers, advocate for the rights of Original Black Inhabitants (OBI aka Natives) and Foundational Black Americans (both free, and human-trafficked enslaved), and demand true civility in an era that tried to silence facts in favor of fear and greed.
In discovering this historical predecessor, we felt a ripple through time. Our work — highlighting systematic and institutional injustice, advocating for the true socioeconomic freedom of Black Americans through equitable law enforcement, and exposing true abuse — is not only relevant today; it is necessity as much as ever and... part of an enduring lineage.
We are standing in the footsteps of Frederick Douglass.
We are continuing with his love, courage, humility and message.
We are The North Star Editorial, in this generation.
A Legacy Renewed
Today, North Star Editorial exists to confront the mechanisms of modern fallacy and teach the public of the supported frameworks STREM and IJD — tackling issues such as systemic racism in public institutions, to the subtle and sinister forms of violence imposed on Black lives, directly responsible for wealth gaps, Minnesota paradox, incarceration rates, poor health, and high mortality — especially in the North — disguised as progressive liberalism but operating as eugenics, to successfully accomplish the racial division of livelihood and longevity, which it always has.
Our exposés, our language reclamation, and our frameworks are not only tools for resolution; they are overdue acts of healing and recovery which require no communal permissions or validations, for these things are self-evident, self-determined, and inalienable “birthrights”—not inferior “American birthrights,” but SUPERIOR natural rights determined by God. i.e., The facts that I AM BORN is my permission and validation for pursuing self-determined acts of healing, recovery, and self-preservation, preferably with harm to none—not just for Black Americans, but for all Americans.
They reclaim facts, civility, intention, and foundational vision for America:
"One Nation, Undivided, With Liberty and Justice for All... as applied to all foundational contributors of yesterday's great experiment and today's foundational and functional nationhood."
Discovering that we share not just a name but a mission with Douglass’s historic publication affirms that we are exactly where we need to be: rooted in legacy, fueled by bravery, ever-purposed and unwavering in determination.
Where We Go From Here
This revelation is more than a proud coincidence — it’s a calling. It sharpens our commitment to center Black equity, insist on equitable accountability, and realize pathways to healing and resolution first at home and then across the Human diaspora.
Like Douglass, we believe the pen — and now the platform — is a weapon of liberation. We invite our readers, contributors, and community members to carry this legacy forward with us. Let North Star Editorial not just be a name. Let it be a continuation of free at last, free at last — we will thank God almighty until and after we are all free at last.
Genesis 1:26-28 KJV
"And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth."
Psalm 82 ESV
God has taken His place in the divine council; in the midst of the gods, He holds judgment. He says, “How long will you judge unjustly and show partiality to the wicked? Selah. Give justice to the weak and the fatherless; maintain the right of the afflicted and the destitute. Rescue the weak and the needy; deliver them from the hand of the wicked.” They have neither knowledge nor understanding; they walk about in darkness; all the foundations of the earth are shaken. I said, “You are gods, sons of the Most High, all of you; nevertheless, like men you shall die, and fall like any prince.” Arise, O God, judge the earth; for you shall inherit all the nations! Psalm 82
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