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How to do away with copaganda: Three Emmy-nominated shows to watch with an abolitionist lens

by Kaitlin Fontana, Rebecca Bodenheimer and Naa Djama Attoh-Okine September 16, 2022December 4, 2023
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'beyond a better hell' / talking to ghosts: a mixtap/e/ssay

by A.D. Carson September 9, 2022December 4, 2023
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Netflix's 'Spiderhead' forgets that the truth about prisons is stranger than sci-fi

by Siona Peterous September 2, 2022December 4, 2023
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'The imaginary line in the sand': Texas artist's installation challenges U.S.-Mexico border

by mónica teresa ortiz August 30, 2022December 4, 2023
Memphis rapper Princess Loko's posthumous feature on "Renaissance" asks us to reckon with living on the margins in a surveillance state.
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Longtime Memphis rapper Princess Loko died in obscurity. Will a Beyoncé feature grant her the 'Renaissance' she's overdue?

by Justin A. Davis August 11, 2022December 5, 2023
Posted inARTS & SOUL

Out of the Shadows: The Queer Life of Artist Beauford Delaney

by Tyra A. Seals June 29, 2022December 5, 2023
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The abolitionist podcast that reveals how little you know about prison

by Alysia Nicole Harris June 23, 2022December 5, 2023
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Read, Watch, Listen, Do: An Abolitionist Media Guide

by Scalawag Editors June 23, 2022December 5, 2023
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'I don't want people to judge me by the music that I rap.' How RICO threatens freedom of speech

by Lil Mobb June 22, 2022December 5, 2023
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'Impact of an Icon': Grieving Young Dolph in South Memphis

by Dorian Record June 22, 2022December 5, 2023
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Hooked on Copaganda: What CoComelon actually teaches kids about police

by Bunny McFadden June 22, 2022December 5, 2023
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE

This couple wants you to know that conjugal visits are only legal in 4 states

by Steve Higginbotham & Jordana Rosenfeld June 21, 2022December 5, 2023
Posted inARTS & SOUL

'I'll never have closure.' What TV gets wrong about having a dad in prison.

by Jordan Gass-Pooré June 20, 2022December 5, 2023
Posted inARTS & SOUL

I was on The First 48. Your true-crime obsession is based on lies.

by Demetrius Buckley June 20, 2022December 5, 2023
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Mildred's Mississippi: 'Roll of Thunder' as a love letter home

by Adria R. Walker May 24, 2022December 5, 2023
Artist Ivy Sole discusses the impetus behind their latest record, and why the struggle to get free requires more than music and dope visuals.
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Getting 'Candid' with rapper Ivy Sole

by Taylor Hosking May 10, 2022December 5, 2023
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Treva Lindsay and Melissa Harris-Perry on misogynoir, poverty, and violence

by Courtney Napier April 25, 2022December 5, 2023
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Poetry & Playlists, Mix 04: Alive & Full

by Aurielle Lucier April 22, 2022November 30, 2022
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Poetry & Playlists, Mix 03: The Spaces Between

by mónica teresa ortiz April 15, 2022April 21, 2022
Posted inARTS & SOUL

Poetry & Playlists, Mix 02: Rituals

by Alysia Nicole Harris April 8, 2022April 21, 2022
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Poetry & Playlists, Mix 01: The Intro

by Scalawag Editors April 1, 2022April 21, 2022
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Bilingual in sarcasm y solidaridad

by Alex Temblador March 29, 2022September 27, 2023
Posted inARTS & SOUL

How Louisville photographers are keeping Breonna Taylor in focus

by Anna Blake March 22, 2022November 14, 2023
Posted inARTS & SOUL

A queer and in-color geography: From Mumbai to West Virginia

by Anjali Enjeti March 3, 2022March 4, 2022
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Songs for a South underwater

by Sergio Lopez February 11, 2022September 27, 2023
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'All my people come from the hills'

by Alysia Nicole Harris January 25, 2022April 7, 2022
Posted inARTS & SOUL

A granddaughter's gratitude

by Andrea Morales, MLK50 January 4, 2022January 3, 2022
Posted inARTS & SOUL

How radical feminist politics shaped one of ATL's most beloved neighborhoods

by Neesha Powell-Ingabire December 28, 2021January 19, 2022
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Queer Black grxl survival in the thick of it all: Aurielle Marie's Gumbo Ya Ya

by Alysia Nicole Harris November 23, 2021April 19, 2022
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The Black opera that stunned America's most segregated stage

by Frances Madeson November 11, 2021November 11, 2021

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