Channing Gerard Joseph

Channing Gerard Joseph is a journalist and scholar who has lectured on enslaved communities at both the Smithsonian National Museum of American History and the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture.

A broadside advertising a slave auction outside of Brooke and Hubbard Auctioneers office, Richmond, Virginia, July 23, 1823.

Slavery Was Not Just Forced Labor but Sexual Violence Too Slavery Was Not Just Forced Labor but Sexual Violence Too

Calls to attenuate the brutality of slavery in museum depictions is absurd when our institutions already downplay one of its most horrific features.

Sep 3, 2025 / Channing Gerard Joseph

American Journalism’s Role in Promoting Racist Terror

American Journalism’s Role in Promoting Racist Terror American Journalism’s Role in Promoting Racist Terror

History must be acknowledged before justice can be done.

Apr 19, 2021 / Feature / Channing Gerard Joseph

The First Drag Queen Was a Former Slave

The First Drag Queen Was a Former Slave The First Drag Queen Was a Former Slave

Who fought for queer freedom a century before Stonewall.

Jan 31, 2020 / Feature / Channing Gerard Joseph

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