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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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Breathing while Black in Mossville, Louisiana

by Danielle Purifoy June 18, 2020September 27, 2023
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The South Hollers 'Black Lives Matter'

by Alysia Nicole Harris June 11, 2020September 27, 2023
Posted inRACE & PLACE

Uncontrolled Images: Documenting Raleigh's Black Revolt

by Jade Wilson June 10, 2020October 1, 2020
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Black businesses disrupt unhealthy food system in Southeast Raleigh

by Courtney Napier June 5, 2020September 27, 2023
Posted inRACE & PLACE

Reckoning with white supremacy: Five fundamentals for white folks

by Lovey Cooper June 1, 2020December 26, 2020
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In their own words: Children rally for justice for Ahmaud Arbery

by Aminata Traore’ May 19, 2020November 13, 2023
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Abolishing parole led to COVID-19 'tinderbox' in NC prisons

by Lyle C. May May 18, 2020October 1, 2020
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A Love Letter to Black Queers in the Rural South

by Darius Scott May 12, 2020November 13, 2023
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The 'Slave Trail of Tears': recreation or reckoning?

by Sammy Feldblum May 11, 2020October 1, 2020
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Young Black Missisippians join May Day protests for workers rights, COVID-19 protections

by Frances Madeson May 6, 2020November 14, 2023
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What happened to New Orleans' Black truck farming culture?

by Xander Peters April 27, 2020September 27, 2023
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Black farmers build their own food scene in Forsyth County, NC

by Tina Vasquez April 24, 2020September 27, 2023
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For Black North Birmingham residents fighting toxic pollution, staying home isn't safe

by Katherine Webb-Hehn April 20, 2020October 1, 2020
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COVID-19: Strategies for workers from organizers and experts

by Lovey Cooper March 31, 2020August 2, 2021
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In pandemic times, radical imagination matters more than ever.

by Lewis Raven Wallace March 30, 2020February 10, 2021
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How Louisiana's oil and gas industry uses prison labor

by Carly Berlin March 24, 2020September 27, 2023
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Black horse culture and living in pleasure: in conversation with Wild Talk's avry jxn

by Amber Officer-Narvasa March 23, 2020September 27, 2023
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Social justice in a time of social distancing

by Kenneth Bailey & Lori Lobenstine March 13, 2020October 1, 2020
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Who was Oliver Harvey?

by Alicia Sun and Isabella Arbelaez February 24, 2020November 13, 2023
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12 Haikus on gentrification: Bull City edition

by Alysia Nicole Harris February 19, 2020September 27, 2023
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A baffled Southerner at the Iowa caucuses

by Tracee M. Saunders February 18, 2020October 1, 2020
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On Blackness and bad weather

by Ishmael Bishop February 17, 2020September 27, 2023
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Gulf South communities say climate justice requires new economic systems

by Emily Carmichael February 11, 2020September 27, 2023
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Losing Ground

by Alejandra Rosa February 10, 2020November 13, 2023
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Real museums of Memphis

by Zandria Felice Robinson February 5, 2020September 27, 2023
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Slave rebellion replaces Confederate reenactments. Watch now.

by Tricia Towey January 29, 2020October 1, 2020
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The Queer South: Where the past is not past, and the future is now

by Minnie Bruce Pratt January 27, 2020November 21, 2023
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1619-2019

by Danielle Purifoy January 22, 2020October 1, 2020
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During Civil Rights Era, Native American Communities in the South Armed Themselves Against the Klan

by Malinda Maynor Lowery January 20, 2020September 27, 2023
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Mold, foundation cracks, sinking houses: How a Florida Habitat for Humanity neighborhood fell apart

by Imani J. Jackson January 15, 2020September 27, 2023

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