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After Helene and Milton, Farmworkers Play an Outsized Role in the Cleanup

by Siri Chilukuri December 18, 2024December 12, 2024

North Carolina farmworkers on an H-2A visa had their visas extended to work on the dangerous cleanup of damaged fields after Hurricanes Helene and Milton.

Who’s Keeping Our History Alive? Black Preservation in South Florida

Who's Keeping Our History Alive?: Black Preservation in South Florida

by Cordell Jones December 5, 2024December 5, 2024

Florida’s LGBTQ+ community defies queer repression with advocacy and preservation

POLITICS & THE PEOPLE

Florida's LGBTQ+ community defies queer repression with advocacy & preservation

by Cordell Jones October 30, 2024October 30, 2024

POLITICS & THE PEOPLE

The Southern Truth About Communism

by Tea Troutman and Sherronda J. Brown April 23, 2024December 26, 2024

Men from the Brevard County Jail fill sand bags for local residents to combat flooding caused by high water levels from Hurricane Irma on October 5, 2017 in Sharpes, Florida. Credit: Paul Hennessy/Alamy Live News.

POLITICS & THE PEOPLE

Florida's jails put incarcerated people's lives at risk during hurricane season

by Angel D’Angelo September 12, 2023September 27, 2023

A visitor uses the video visitation system at the Fort Bend County Jail to speak with an inmate, in Richmond, Texas on May 5, 2015. Prisoners’ rights advocates were worried at the time that the growing use in of video technology to facilitate visits was part of a trend to eliminate the more traditional in-person visit. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip) The hidden cost of 'free' tablets in prison

POLITICS & THE PEOPLE

The hidden cost of 'free' tablets in prison

by Ezzial Williams June 21, 2023September 27, 2023

We're Here: Florida's Queer Resistance. Exploring themes of LGBTQ+ activism and resilience in the face of adversity in drag.

We're Queer, 'We're Here,' and We're Fighting Back

by Sezin Koehler March 23, 2023November 21, 2023

POLITICS & THE PEOPLE

How we save ourselves: Interventions beyond the ballot box

by Anoa Changa October 11, 2022December 4, 2023

POLITICS & THE PEOPLE

How we build political power: Lessons from Texas and Florida organizers

by Anoa Changa October 11, 2022December 4, 2023

I grew up against a backdrop of white evangelical power. Florida's new CRT ban means even more Black students will, too.

by Sierra Lyons August 17, 2022December 5, 2023

“Thoughts and prayers without action to prevent tragedy is faith without works.” Southern students speak out on legislation and safety fears.

'Young people need power.' Southern students on safety, accountability, and what they need from adults

by Rainesford Stauffer June 7, 2022December 5, 2023

Incarcerated Muslims in Florida celebrated Eid with limited accommodations

by Anthony Cobb and Khawla Nakua May 2, 2022December 5, 2023

POLITICS & THE PEOPLE

Florida's problems—and their solutions—are a bellwether for the South at large

by Anoa Changa April 29, 2022December 5, 2023

Scalawag's 2021 Sick & Shut In List

POLITICS & THE PEOPLE

Scalawag's 2021 Sick & Shut In List

by Scalawag Team and Scalawag Editors December 29, 2021December 29, 2021

Salt, Soil, & Supper: Amending Florida's constitution to save its waterways

by Xander Peters December 8, 2021September 27, 2023

POLITICS & THE PEOPLE

Without paid leave, the South's COVID school policies cause a terrible trickle down for families

by Rainesford Stauffer November 18, 2021November 13, 2023

POLITICS & THE PEOPLE

Florida's legacy of slow-rolling parole keeps thousands of people behind bars—some, for decades past their eligibility date

by Justin Garcia October 28, 2021March 9, 2022

POLITICS & THE PEOPLE

New Urbanism sells faux sustainability as a luxury on Florida's 30A

by Ashira Morris October 13, 2021September 27, 2023

POLITICS & THE PEOPLE

Overdose deaths are reaching record highs in the South as COVID vaccines take priority

by Lovey Cooper September 10, 2021September 21, 2021

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Hurricane Ida: How to get and give help on the Gulf Coast

by Scalawag Team August 30, 2021September 27, 2023

Salt, Soil, & Supper: Uprooting 'private landowner syndrome'

by Xander Peters August 11, 2021September 27, 2023

POLITICS & THE PEOPLE

In Florida, protesting can cost you your right to vote

by Sierra Lyons August 11, 2021August 11, 2021

'T-Pain was important because he was ours'

by Israel Daramola March 8, 2021March 8, 2021

Review: One Night in Miami

by Khayla Deans February 23, 2021March 3, 2021

POLITICS & THE PEOPLE

Democrats eventually won Black youth voters, but will they keep them?

by Iliana Hagenah December 10, 2020November 13, 2023

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

by Justin Garcia November 24, 2020September 27, 2023

POLITICS & THE PEOPLE

Voting may have ended, but the work has just begun

by Anoa Changa November 5, 2020November 5, 2020

In the quest for abolition, America must learn from Haiti

by Marina Magloire July 6, 2020July 2, 2021

POLITICS & THE PEOPLE

This election season, Florida's people's assemblies focus on building a true democracy

by Eli Day March 17, 2020September 16, 2020

"No Place Like Home" Notes from opening night at The Miami Third Horizon Caribbean Film Festival

by Zaina Alsous February 26, 2020December 3, 2020