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Danielle Purifoy

Danielle was Scalawag's founding Race & Place Editor. A Black queer lawyer and geographer at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, her research focuses on environmental justice and the racial politics of development in Black towns and communities.

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Soul City: A Black dream killed just as it was coming true

by Danielle Purifoy July 27, 2021July 29, 2021

Floyd McKissick Jr.'s dream is an example of how white supremacy and its twin, anti-Blackness, intervene in the most basic life processes.

Posted inRACE & PLACE

'Visionary and Pragmatic'—A Black Feminist Guide to Electoral Politics

by Danielle Purifoy October 6, 2020October 6, 2021
Posted inRACE & PLACE

As the wood pellet industry grows across the South, Enviva targets Alabama and Mississippi for future expansion

by Danielle Purifoy October 5, 2020September 27, 2023
Posted inRACE & PLACE

Knock on Wood: How Europe's wood pellet appetite fuels environmental racism in the South

by Danielle Purifoy October 5, 2020September 27, 2023
Posted inARTS & SOUL, RACE & PLACE

Breathing while Black in Mossville, Louisiana

by Danielle Purifoy June 18, 2020September 27, 2023
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE

COVID-19: An extensive—and growing—list of political demands in the South

by Danielle Purifoy April 3, 2020September 16, 2020
Posted inRACE & PLACE

1619-2019

by Danielle Purifoy January 22, 2020October 1, 2020
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE

Acts of remembrance

by Danielle Purifoy September 2, 2019September 16, 2020
Posted inRACE & PLACE

In Photos: Black August in the Park

by Dare Kumolu-Johnson and Danielle Purifoy August 19, 2019October 1, 2020
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE

The South is Everywhere

by Danielle Purifoy March 18, 2019November 14, 2023
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE

Shrieking Sam

by Danielle Purifoy January 14, 2019November 14, 2023
Posted inRACE & PLACE

The Water Next Time?

by Danielle Purifoy October 10, 2018October 1, 2020
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE

Black futures and Black places

by Danielle Purifoy May 28, 2017September 27, 2023
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE

How do you beat plantation power?

by Danielle Purifoy March 15, 2017September 27, 2023
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE

In Lowndes County, getting free means getting infrastructure

by Danielle Purifoy February 13, 2017September 27, 2023
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE

Stories from a town built in the face of racist violence

by Danielle Purifoy January 24, 2017September 27, 2023
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE

What's changed in Lowndes County, Alabama—and what hasn't

by Danielle Purifoy January 9, 2017September 27, 2023
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE

Finding places of their own

by Danielle Purifoy January 9, 2017September 27, 2023
Posted inRACE & PLACE

When all Black lives flourish

by Danielle Purifoy November 11, 2016October 1, 2020
Posted inRACE & PLACE

A dispatch from the streets of Charlotte

by Danielle Purifoy September 22, 2016October 1, 2020
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE

An epilogue—for now

by Danielle Purifoy September 8, 2016September 27, 2023
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE

Community organizing mattered around Mebane—but the struggle isn't over

by Danielle Purifoy August 27, 2016September 27, 2023
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE

Finding Black independence in Mebane

by Danielle Purifoy August 15, 2016September 27, 2023
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE

A place called Mebane

by Danielle Purifoy August 8, 2016September 27, 2023
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE

North Carolina prisoners are dying in custody

by Danielle Purifoy and Matt Whitt February 25, 2016July 2, 2021
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE

The moral fight within Christianity against climate change

by Danielle Purifoy December 10, 2015September 27, 2023
Posted inRACE & PLACE

Going home? Scenes from Lowndes County

by Danielle Purifoy November 24, 2015October 1, 2020

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