Alysia Nicole Harris, Scalawag Team, Author at Scalawag

Grammy-nominated jazz vocalist Nnenna Freelon is partnering with Scalawag to bring our audiences three fresh seasons of Great Grief, her original podcast honoring the stories and songs of Black women who have faced grief and loss.

Alysia Nicole Harris

'Great Grief' finds a new home at Scalawag

A Grief of Our Own

Schistostega pennata: grief & the luminous land

In the soil, in the sound: Houston's Jamal Cyrus gets to the root of Southern Black aesthetics

The abolitionist podcast that reveals how little you know about prison

Poetry & Playlists, Mix 02: Rituals

'All my people come from the hills'

Queer Black grxl survival in the thick of it all: Aurielle Marie's Gumbo Ya Ya

'We have to evaluate the motives of health care institutions'

Abolition made practical

Let Black Art Tell It

Poetry from Jericho Brown, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, & Taylor Johnson

Exits from solitude—Poems we need right now

'Imagine not just the end of prisons, but the end of a society that could have prisons'

Perspectives on incarceration and abolition you should be listening to

This I Know For Sure: Remembrance and freedom in Jaki Shelton Green's The River Speaks of Thirst

Filming the end of a town: Environmental racism and abolition

The South Hollers 'Black Lives Matter'

Rent Strikes & Beyond: Housing strategies that work for the South

Rent Strikes & Beyond: Understanding eviction laws in the South

12 Haikus on gentrification: Bull City edition

The Proof is in the West End: Dance and wellness converge at The Movement Lab

Labor and gift: the paradoxical power of the arts—our all-arts print issue

Kicking up dust: Arts, race, and place converge in Scalawag's pilot artist-in-residence program

I know the culture that produced Kavanaugh: tradition and violence at D.C. prep schools

More than latitude: Ties that bind the Global South

Justice is more than a political issue now—it's a spiritual one