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Combating White Supremacy

The history of white supremacy is deeply connected to the American South—but the South is also the home to some of the fiercest and most successful opponents of structural racism. Every other week we'll be bringing you stories that highlight everyday Southerners confronting white supremacy and anti-Blackness in their communities with creative strategies, dedicated coalition-building, and unwavering commitment.

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The old devil and the new details

by Mab Segrest March 29, 2021April 29, 2021
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'Go There Ready for War'—Militia Organizing in North Carolina in the Context of the Insurrection at the US Capitol

by Mab Segrest March 29, 2021April 7, 2021
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Ending white supremacist violence will take all of us

by Cierra Hinton March 19, 2021March 19, 2021
Posted inRACE & PLACE

White tears will never be the solution

by Matt Hartman March 19, 2021April 1, 2021
Posted inARTS & SOUL

The Color of Freedom: Reimagining portraits of the formerly enslaved

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

Pauli Murray: Black revolutionary

by Dolores Chandler January 29, 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
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE

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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To shift the media narrative about the South, we have to rebuild it altogether

by Anoa Changa December 17, 2020December 17, 2020
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
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To prevent abhorrent state-run voter suppression and police brutality, look to local action beyond election years

by Anoa Changa November 6, 2020November 6, 2020
Posted inRACE & PLACE

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 inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE

Exposed: UNC pledged neo-confederates $2.5 mil for monument

by L’Erin Jensen July 21, 2020November 13, 2023
Posted inARTS & SOUL

White food media and the commodification of resistance

by Tunde Wey July 13, 2020September 27, 2023
Posted inRACE & PLACE

Uncontrolled Images: Documenting Raleigh's Black Revolt

by Jade Wilson June 10, 2020October 1, 2020
Posted inRACE & PLACE

Reckoning with white supremacy: Five fundamentals for white folks

by Lovey Cooper June 1, 2020December 26, 2020
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Memorial Day and weaponizing the American flag

by Jedediah Purdy May 25, 2020December 3, 2020
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"If we can dismantle patriarchy and capitalism, we might be onto something"

by Gabrielle Hernandez January 28, 2020September 16, 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
Posted inRACE & PLACE

Room to Hold Grief and Gratitude

by Scalawag Editors November 25, 2019September 27, 2023
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"If we win here, we can win anywhere"

by Anna Simonton April 8, 2019September 16, 2020
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE

Resisting History?

by Tiffany Stevens March 4, 2019September 16, 2020
Posted inARTS & SOUL

Toppling giants: painting the removal of confederate monuments

by Ben Hamburger January 14, 2019September 16, 2020
Posted inARTS & SOUL

It's time: Making the Music Video for Mavis Staples' 'If All I Was, Was Black.'

by Brooks Emanuel January 14, 2019September 16, 2020
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE

Shrieking Sam

by Danielle Purifoy January 14, 2019November 14, 2023
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE

Fighting racism with community and craft beer

by Dolores Chandler September 3, 2018September 16, 2020
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE

Last year, white nationalists staged a fatal race rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. The location was no coincidence.

by Frederick Coye Heard August 13, 2018September 16, 2020
Posted inRACE & PLACE

Who will speak for Alabama's ghosts?

by Christine Folch May 11, 2018October 1, 2020
Posted inRACE & PLACE

In Montgomery, a harrowing, beautiful reckoning with racial terror

by Sammy Feldblum May 8, 2018October 1, 2020

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