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How we build political power: Lessons from Texas and Florida organizers

by Anoa Changa October 11, 2022December 4, 2023
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How we fight gerrymandering in the South

by Anoa Changa October 11, 2022December 4, 2023
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How we organize around elections: Lessons from Mississippi organizers

by Anoa Changa October 11, 2022December 4, 2023
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'A modernized, streamlined incarceration experience.' New prison technology surveils life on both sides of the wall.

by Lyle C. May September 29, 2022December 4, 2023
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The Dropout dramatizes Elizabeth Holmes' fraudulent rise. Endless military funding is also a scam.

by Bria Massey September 13, 2022December 4, 2023
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Women have long borne the brunt of over-policing. Now, they're the fastest-growing incarcerated population in Texas.

by Cynthia Simons August 25, 2022December 4, 2023
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I grew up against a backdrop of white evangelical power. Florida's new CRT ban means even more Black students will, too.

by Sierra Lyons August 17, 2022December 5, 2023
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Contrary to popular belief, healthcare in prison is far from free. Sometimes, it can cost your life.

by Luci Harrell June 24, 2022December 5, 2023
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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
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Virginia was primed to teach Black history. Then the nation's first anti-critical race theory governor took office.

by Sonia Rao June 14, 2022December 5, 2023
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Abolition, popular culture, and justice: introducing 'pop justice'

by Ko Bragg June 2, 2022December 5, 2023
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Q&A: Southern abortion providers on what the media's getting wrong

by Ko Bragg May 27, 2022December 5, 2023
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 I'm an abortion doula in the Deep South. This is what I want you to know.

by Nzingha H. May 18, 2022December 5, 2023
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In Texas' most populated counties, people-power and political power go hand-in-hand

by Anoa Changa April 29, 2022December 5, 2023
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Florida's problems—and their solutions—are a bellwether for the South at large

by Anoa Changa April 29, 2022December 5, 2023
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How millennial and Gen Z organizers are moving Mississippi beyond Jim Crow

by Anoa Changa April 29, 2022December 5, 2023
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'This plan is a lie.' How biogas could do more harm than good for the hog industry

by Cameron Oglesby March 24, 2022September 27, 2023
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'Justifiable police homicide' and the ruse of American justice

by Da'Shaun Harrison, Joy James and Samaria Rice March 8, 2022November 14, 2023
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Anita Hill: Ketanji Brown Jackson's nomination to the Supreme Court signals historic change 

by Anita Hill February 28, 2022July 1, 2022
Incoming students at Morehouse, a Historically Black college in Atlanta, Georgia, walk past a mural depicting Black history on their way to New Student Orientation 2021. Credit: Photo via Morehouse College on Facebook.
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'Who keeps us safe?' An HBCU roundtable on violence and accountability

by Ko Bragg, Adam Harris, Da'Shaun Harrison, Noella Williams and Alexis Wray February 25, 2022November 13, 2023
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No teacher? Call a cop, says Oklahoma governor

by Destinee Adams February 9, 2022November 13, 2023
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Roe is down. Keep supporting these abortion funds.

by Scalawag Team January 22, 2022June 24, 2022
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When reparations grow from the grassroots

by Ray Levy Uyeda, YES! Magazine January 11, 2022December 5, 2023
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Scalawag's 2021 Sick & Shut In List

by Scalawag Team and Scalawag Editors December 29, 2021December 29, 2021
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Without paid leave, the South's COVID school policies cause a terrible trickle down for families

by Rainesford Stauffer November 18, 2021November 13, 2023
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Scenes from the picket line: Kellogg workers on why they went on strike for two months straight

by Jason Kerzinski November 5, 2021December 3, 2021
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Florida's legacy of slow-rolling parole keeps thousands of people behind bars—some, for decades past their eligibility date

by Justin Garcia October 28, 2021March 9, 2022
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New Urbanism sells faux sustainability as a luxury on Florida's 30A

by Ashira Morris October 13, 2021September 27, 2023
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Mississippi's childhood lead exposure interventions don't do enough for kids

by Erica Hensley October 5, 2021November 13, 2023
Volunteers with Southern Solidarity's New York team pause for a photo while handing out supplies to the city's unhoused folks.
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Homelessness and eviction have always been public health crises. The pandemic made them even more deadly.

by Sarah Glen September 13, 2021September 21, 2021

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