Emerge was a monthly
news magazine that was published from 1989 to 2000. Its primary focus was on issues of interest to
African Americans. In 2000,
Time said
Emerge was "the nation's best black newsmagazine for the past seven years" the
St. Louis Post-Dispatch described it as "the premier source for intellectual discussion on issues affecting African-Americans", and the
New York Amsterdam News wrote that "it had no rival for cutting edge news for and about the Black community".