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Climate Resilience
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Climate Resilience: A Scalawag Reading List

by Tea Troutman December 23, 2024December 26, 2024

Climate change and the frequent extreme weather events it causes have ushered in an epoch marked by successive disasters that plague Southern communities at a disproportionately higher rate than their regional counterparts. Scalawag has long centered environmental racism and the Southern tradition of resisting it in our publishing and this year was no exception. 

Rejecting cynical narratives of the South
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Rejecting cynical narratives of the South

by Trey Washington May 17, 2024May 17, 2024
Hell and High Water: From Gaza to Mississippi
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Hell and High Water: From Gaza to Mississippi

by Mary Annaïse Heglar May 2, 2024August 27, 2024
Photographer Justin Hardiman, a collaborator with Jasmine Williams and Sarah Jené’s 'How We Get Over: We Grow On' project at the Mississippi Museum of Art, shares stunning portraits and excerpts from his audio-visual project, 'The Color of Grief.'
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The Color of Grief

by Justin Hardiman September 22, 2023September 25, 2023
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Despair, Hope, Emancipation: A Story from Parchman State Penitentiary

by A Mississippi Collective August 29, 2023August 29, 2023
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Schistostega pennata: grief & the luminous land

by Alysia Nicole Harris August 1, 2023August 4, 2023
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grief & other loves: National Poetry Month workshop series

by Scalawag Team March 16, 2023December 1, 2023
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Successors and failures: Adulting after death

by Maya Miller January 25, 2023December 1, 2023
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In Photos: A year in the life of Mississippi's 66th Choctaw Indian Princess

by Adria R. Walker November 22, 2022December 1, 2023
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On abortion, count on Gen Z for more than votes

by Rainesford Stauffer November 7, 2022December 1, 2023
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How we organize around elections: Lessons from Mississippi organizers

by Anoa Changa October 11, 2022December 4, 2023
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White reporters: It's time to pop your parachute and share your byline

by Erica Hensley August 3, 2022December 5, 2023
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Black elders saved this couple's Mississippi farm. Now they're harvesting ancestral techniques—and tomatoes

by Erica Hensley and Teresa Ervin-Springs August 3, 2022December 5, 2023
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'Impact of an Icon': Grieving Young Dolph in South Memphis

by Dorian Record June 22, 2022December 5, 2023
“Thoughts and prayers without action to prevent tragedy is faith without works.” Southern students speak out on legislation and safety fears.
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'Young people need power.' Southern students on safety, accountability, and what they need from adults

by Rainesford Stauffer June 7, 2022December 5, 2023
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Mildred's Mississippi: 'Roll of Thunder' as a love letter home

by Adria R. Walker May 24, 2022December 5, 2023
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How millennial and Gen Z organizers are moving Mississippi beyond Jim Crow

by Anoa Changa April 29, 2022December 5, 2023
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Songs for a South underwater

by Sergio Lopez February 11, 2022September 27, 2023
Scalawag's 2021 Sick & Shut In List
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Scalawag's 2021 Sick & Shut In List

by Scalawag Team and Scalawag Editors December 29, 2021December 29, 2021
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Without paid leave, the South's COVID school policies cause a terrible trickle down for families

by Rainesford Stauffer November 18, 2021November 13, 2023
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Mississippi's childhood lead exposure interventions don't do enough for kids

by Erica Hensley October 5, 2021November 13, 2023
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Contraband Books: What Texas prisons have against Michelle Alexander, Frederick Douglass, and Alice Walker

by Julie Poole September 28, 2021September 28, 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
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Salt, Soil, & Supper: The social contracts of municipal water systems

by Xander Peters August 18, 2021September 27, 2023
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In portraits and letters: 'Being free is not the same as freedom'

by Jason Kerzinski August 17, 2021November 16, 2022
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'Who would want their child to miss everything?'

by Ko Bragg and JS June 25, 2021November 13, 2023
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Salt, Soil, & Supper: From Mississipi's farms to kids' bellies

by Xander Peters April 14, 2021September 27, 2023
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Jackson's water crisis: How you can help

by Tim Majors and Scalawag Editors March 9, 2021September 27, 2023
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Reporter's Notebook: The Power of Proximity

by Ko Bragg February 12, 2021November 13, 2023
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Democrats eventually won Black youth voters, but will they keep them?

by Iliana Hagenah December 10, 2020November 13, 2023

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