• MISSION
  • DONATE
  • SOUTHERN POLITICS
  • RACE & PLACE
  • ARTS & SOUL
  • NEWSLETTERS
    • POP JUSTICE
    • THIS WEEK IN THE SOUTH
  • Instagram
  • Twitter
  • Facebook
  • TikTok

SOUTHERN POLITICS

RACE & PLACE

ARTS & SOUL

NEWSLETTERS

WE'RE DREAMING UP ABOLITIONIST FUTURES. Help us share our vision.

Support us

FOLLOW US:

  • Instagram
  • Twitter
  • Facebook
  • TikTok
Skip to content
SCALAWAG

Scalawag

Reckoning with the South

  • SOUTHERN POLITICS
  • RACE & PLACE
  • ARTS & SOUL
  • NEWSLETTERS
    • POP JUSTICE
    • THIS WEEK IN THE SOUTH
  • MISSION
  • DONATE
DONATE
  • Topics
  • ABOLITION WEEK
  • WEEK OF WRITING: #STOPCOPCITY
  • grief & other loves
  • POP JUSTICE
  • BLACKNESS
  • EDUCATION
  • ORGANIZING
  • QUEERNESS
  • THE PRESS IN PRISON
  • WITNESS

Donnie Moreland

Donnie Moreland is a Houston-based storyteller. Donnie has contributed to Black Youth Project, Brain Mill Press, Pangyrus Literary Magazine, Root Work Journal, A Gathering of the Tribes, Scalawag and more. Donnie is an alumni of both the Voices of Our Nations Arts Foundation, and The Watering Hole. Donnie is also the co-founder of the literary organization, Fellowship of the Griots.

some money in the dresser drawer and a love letter too
Posted inARTS & SOUL

some money in the dresser drawer and a love letter too

by Donnie Moreland March 31, 2025March 31, 2025

When Betty said she loved that man, on that morning, I wonder where the words fossilized? If they sheltered in the red wool pattern of his prayer rug? That's if she said it before fasting from her night words. Maybe she said it before noon prayer? knowing. knowing. Keeping play in tact for the six […]

vanguard poems
Posted inARTS & SOUL

The Vanguard Poems I & II

by Donnie Moreland December 23, 2024December 23, 2024
solitary confinement dragon
Posted inARTS & SOUL

Solitary Confinement (dragon scales don't bury like gold)

by Donnie Moreland December 20, 2024December 12, 2024

WE'RE DREAMING UP ABOLITIONIST FUTURES. Help us share our vision.

Support us

Latest stories:
ARTS & SOUL

some money in the dresser drawer and a love letter too

by Donnie Moreland March 31, 2025March 31, 2025
RACE & PLACE

They tried to bury him: The hidden history of Abram Colby

by Greer Brigham March 26, 2025March 26, 2025
RACE & PLACE

Abolition in the Era of Climate Change

by Aarohi Sheth March 20, 2025March 20, 2025
RACE & PLACE

Marcus McDonald shares Charleston history and makes his own

by Sheeka Sanahori March 11, 2025March 11, 2025
RACE & PLACE

Cycling History: The Selma to Montgomery Bike Ride on the 60th Anniversary

by Angela Hollowell March 6, 2025April 9, 2025
RACE & PLACE

Liberation Lineages

by Briana Blueitt March 4, 2025March 4, 2025


FOLLOW US:
  • Instagram
  • Twitter
  • Facebook
  • TikTok

NEVER MISS AN OPPORTUNITY TO LEARN MORE. Sign up for our newsletter:



  • SUBMISSIONS
  • JOBS
  • EDITORIAL INDEPENDENCE
  • TRANSPARENCY
  • MEMBERSHIP
  • MANAGE YOUR ACCOUNT
  • MISSION
© 2025 Scalawag Powered by Newspack
  • Instagram
  • Twitter
  • Facebook
  • TikTok