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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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A Native Crew asks: 'Whose land are you skating on?'

by Justin Garcia November 24, 2020September 27, 2023
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Southern Sustenance

by Scalawag Editors November 20, 2020November 13, 2023
Posted inRACE & PLACE

This Durham trio wants you to pay Black farmers

by Kyesha Jennings November 16, 2020September 27, 2023
Posted inRACE & PLACE

After two devastating hurricanes, southwest Louisiana worries the rest of the country has already moved on

by Xander Peters November 9, 2020September 27, 2023
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Black Power in the South: How to keep supporting the movement

by Scalawag Team and Scalawag Editors November 6, 2020April 20, 2021
Posted inRACE & PLACE

'I wanted to wear a purple ball gown with a crimson silk cape'

by Cynthia R. Greenlee November 3, 2020November 3, 2020
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North Carolina's Racial Justice Act can remove prisoners from death row. But is life without parole actual justice?

by Lyle C. May October 26, 2020
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Doctor who performed hysterectomies on ICE detainees 'operated by a different set of rules' in rural Georgia

by Tina Vasquez, Prism October 19, 2020September 27, 2023
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Growing pains

by Adjoa D. Danso October 16, 2020September 27, 2023
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'Visionary and Pragmatic'—A Black Feminist Guide to Electoral Politics

by Danielle Purifoy October 6, 2020October 6, 2021
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As the wood pellet industry grows across the South, Enviva targets Alabama and Mississippi for future expansion

by Danielle Purifoy October 5, 2020September 27, 2023
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Knock on Wood: How Europe's wood pellet appetite fuels environmental racism in the South

by Danielle Purifoy October 5, 2020September 27, 2023
Posted inRACE & PLACE

Sweet (and sticky) redemption

by Maurice Bailey & Nik Heynen September 29, 2020September 27, 2023
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Without profit from stolen Indigenous lands, UNC would have gone broke 100 years ago

by Lucas P. Kelley & Garrett W. Wright September 15, 2020November 13, 2023
Posted inRACE & PLACE

Q&A: Ajamu Dillahunt, long-time civil rights organizer and former USPS union president

by Jonathan Michels September 7, 2020October 1, 2020
Posted inRACE & PLACE

'Imagine not just the end of prisons, but the end of a society that could have prisons'

by Alysia Nicole Harris August 26, 2020November 21, 2023
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Letter from a New Normal: Finding hope in purgatory

by DANTE August 20, 2020November 21, 2023
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Field Notes from the Inside: Women in Florida prisons share glimpses of COVID-19 lockdowns

by MARINA BUENO & BOUDICCA August 18, 2020November 21, 2023
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Too heartbreaking to leave, too expensive to stay. More than 802,000 homes are at risk of climate disaster—mostly in the South.

by Xander Peters August 7, 2020November 21, 2023
Posted inRACE & PLACE

Asheville's 'historic' reparations resolution is not what it seems

by David Forbes July 24, 2020November 12, 2020
Posted inRACE & PLACE

As ICE travel bans target international students, communities resist through care

by Anastasia Kārkliņa July 17, 2020September 27, 2023
Posted inARTS & SOUL

The Remedy: The Costello family's 'next-best thing' spaghetti sauce

by Mike Costello July 14, 2020November 13, 2023
Posted inARTS & SOUL

White food media and the commodification of resistance

by Tunde Wey July 13, 2020September 27, 2023
Posted inARTS & SOUL

The Remedy: Mrs. Betty's macaroni-and-cheese

by Cynthia R. Greenlee July 10, 2020November 13, 2023
Posted inRACE & PLACE

In the quest for abolition, America must learn from Haiti

by Marina Magloire July 6, 2020July 2, 2021
Posted inARTS & SOUL

The Remedy: Grandma Lacey's Cornbread

by Samantha Willis June 30, 2020November 13, 2023
Posted inRACE & PLACE

Filming the end of a town: Environmental racism and abolition

by Alysia Nicole Harris June 29, 2020February 10, 2021
Posted inRACE & PLACE

Justice for Breonna Taylor: Dispatch from Kentucky's March for Black Women's Lives

by Austyn Gaffney June 26, 2020October 27, 2020
Posted inRACE & PLACE

Liberation is a Long Haul: Lessons from Juneteenth

by Jakeya Caruthers June 22, 2020September 27, 2023
Posted inRACE & PLACE

Modern abolition and the lasting truth of change

by Scalawag Editors June 18, 2020April 16, 2021

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