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Scalawag's Race & Place coverage pushes the boundaries of traditional conversations about incarceration, segregation, gentrification, nutrition, migration, liberation, and more. We examine the role and legacy of race in the places that form the South—from porches and penitentiaries, to places of worship and port cities.

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The fall and rise of North Carolina's first Black school

by Rupen Fofaria, EdNC.org April 13, 2021November 13, 2023
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A New Crop: Portraits of Houston's Black urban farmers

by Lenard Smith, Jr. April 9, 2021September 27, 2023
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The old devil and the new details

by Mab Segrest March 29, 2021April 29, 2021
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White tears will never be the solution

by Matt Hartman March 19, 2021April 1, 2021
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Consuming Blackness in 'progressive' West Virginia

by Crystal Good March 5, 2021
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'Pure America': Eugenics past and present

by Adam Willems March 2, 2021March 3, 2021
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

In Appalachia, the face of addiction is white—and so is the story of recovery

by Crystal Good February 26, 2021April 6, 2021
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We who believe in freedom cannot rest until it comes

by Anoa Changa February 24, 2021March 3, 2021
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Rural Texans faced the same storm—with unique hardships

by Melissa B. Taboada & Sarah M. Vasquez, The Texas Tribune February 22, 2021September 27, 2023
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Reporter's Notebook: The Power of Proximity

by Ko Bragg February 12, 2021November 13, 2023
Posted inRACE & PLACE

How Black kids reclaimed the whitewashed world of 1920's children's literature

by Paige Gray February 8, 2021November 13, 2023
Posted inARTS & SOUL

The Color of Freedom: Reimagining portraits of the formerly enslaved

by Lee Hedgepeth February 5, 2021February 5, 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 inRACE & PLACE

Pauli Murray: Black revolutionary

by Dolores Chandler January 29, 2021November 13, 2023
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Wake County promised to reconsider cops in schools. When they didn't, students took to the streets.

by Courtney Napier January 26, 2021November 13, 2023
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'When you come to school, you forfeit your rights'

by Courtney Napier January 19, 2021November 13, 2023
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A white supremacist coup succeeded in 1898 North Carolina, led by lying politicians and racist newspapers that amplified their lies

by Kathy Roberts Forde & Kristin Gustafson January 18, 2021September 14, 2021
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What the Capitol riots show us about the white illusion of civility

by Lovey Cooper and Katherine Webb-Hehn January 15, 2021January 15, 2021
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A forgotten coup in the American heartland echoes Trump

by Russell Cobb, The Conversation January 12, 2021January 12, 2021
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When God Calls My Name

by Ashley M. Jones January 11, 2021October 4, 2021
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The South's communication infrastructure can't withstand climate change

by Bailey Basham January 8, 2021September 27, 2023
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'A democracy we didn't achieve 50 years ago'

by Alice Driver January 5, 2021January 5, 2021
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Meet the Southern librarians fighting for racial justice and truth-telling

by Jason Christian December 29, 2020November 13, 2023
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In Louisiana's petrochemical corridor, COVID-19 spreads like cancer

by Drew Hawkins December 18, 2020December 18, 2020
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To shift the media narrative about the South, we have to rebuild it altogether

by Anoa Changa December 17, 2020December 17, 2020
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'If I asked my family to get rid of a bumper sticker, they would tell me to quit my job.'

by Anonymous December 17, 2020February 4, 2025
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE

I ran from my church after Trayvon Martin's murder—but not from my religion

by Courtney Napier December 17, 2020December 18, 2020
Posted inRACE & PLACE

The media's extractive telling of Appalachia

by R. Garringer December 15, 2020January 5, 2021
Posted inRACE & PLACE

Safety looks like full bellies in a pandemic

by Courtney Napier November 30, 2020September 27, 2023

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