Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE Overdose deaths are reaching record highs in the South as COVID vaccines take priority by Lovey Cooper September 10, 2021September 21, 2021
Posted inRACE & PLACE Breaking Through COVID: What data can't tell about the South's vaccine rates by Scalawag Editors and Scalawag Team September 9, 2021September 21, 2021
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE A principal leaves his beloved school after an intense year by Katy Reckdahl and The Hechinger Report August 24, 2021November 13, 2023
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE In Florida, protesting can cost you your right to vote by Sierra Lyons August 11, 2021August 11, 2021
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE 'A lifetime of damage' on a creosote plume in Houston's Fifth Ward by Xander Peters August 3, 2021August 2, 2021
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE The incalculable cost of cheap chicken—and the hidden industry that shoulders it by Tina Vasquez July 20, 2021September 27, 2023
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE Qualified Immunity: How 'ordinary police work' tramples civil rights by Lyle C. May June 23, 2021October 18, 2021
Posted inRACE & PLACE Two letters from North Carolina prisons make the same demands—45 years apart. by Anne C. Willett & A.L. Harris June 22, 2021February 23, 2023
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE Prostitution was already illegal in Louisiana. Then Republicans crafted an even more damning law used to target trans sex workers. by Matt Nadel June 1, 2021April 20, 2022
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE In Alamance County, a battle for racial justice confronts a bloody past and an uncertain future by Carli Brosseau, ProPublica May 28, 2021July 27, 2021
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE How Durham, North Carolina, became the first US city to ban police exchanges with Israel by Zaina Alsous and Sammy Hanf May 18, 2021November 14, 2023
Posted inRACE & PLACE To the other 98%: Lessons from the nation's Black male educators by Letrell Harris & Horace Ryans May 14, 2021November 13, 2023
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE Meet the 5 women uprooting white beauty standards and white supremacy in West Virginia by Crystal Good May 11, 2021May 12, 2021
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE Bad medicine in Louisiana prisons by Xander Adams May 5, 2021April 13, 2022
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE The BAmazon Loss and the Road Ahead by Joe DeManuelle-Hall, Labor Notes April 16, 2021April 16, 2021
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE The Jewish South is Black, too by Nic Yeager April 2, 2021April 2, 2021
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE He thought he could be a 'good' cop. Now, he's working to end policing as we know it. by Gabbriel Schivone March 23, 2021March 23, 2021
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE In Arkansas, falling behind on rent could mean jail time by Maya Miller & Ellis Simani, ProPublica; & Benjamin Hardy, Arkansas Nonprofit News Network March 22, 2021March 26, 2021
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE Alabama taxpayers have paid $4 billion toward a policy that Governor Ivey refuses to bring home by Katherine Webb-Hehn March 16, 2021March 29, 2021
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE The majority of Alabamians want Medicaid expansion by Katherine Webb-Hehn March 15, 2021March 29, 2021
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE The Southern Tenant Union Playbook by Sam Russek March 12, 2021March 15, 2021
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE Jackson's water crisis: How you can help by Tim Majors and Scalawag Editors March 9, 2021September 27, 2023
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE Texas' oldest Black university was built on a former plantation. Its students still fight a legacy of voter suppression. by Alexa Ura, The Texas Tribune March 1, 2021November 13, 2023
Posted inRACE & PLACE We who believe in freedom cannot rest until it comes by Anoa Changa February 24, 2021March 3, 2021
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE How a Black and Latinx coalition turned utilities back on in LaGrange by Lewis Raven Wallace February 19, 2021February 19, 2021
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE A new administration still leaves Southern abortion funders with political and cultural barriers by Clare Busch February 9, 2021February 11, 2021
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE Student journalists at an HBCU campus newspaper took on racist local media—and won by Alexis Wray February 2, 2021November 13, 2023
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE 1.8 million eligible North Carolina voters didn't cast ballots in 2020. Trump won the state by 74,481. by Coleen Harry, WFAE January 25, 2021January 25, 2021
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE Five Peachy Takeaways: Georgia's grassroots organizing lessons will be valuable in the South for a long time coming by Anoa Changa January 22, 2021August 20, 2021
