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Organizing & Resistance

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Scenes from the picket line: Kellogg workers on why they went on strike for two months straight

by Jason Kerzinski November 5, 2021December 3, 2021
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE

In Florida, protesting can cost you your right to vote

by Sierra Lyons August 11, 2021August 11, 2021
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Abolition made practical

by Alysia Nicole Harris July 6, 2021July 6, 2021
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Two letters from North Carolina prisons make the same demands—45 years apart.

by Anne C. Willett & A.L. Harris June 22, 2021February 23, 2023
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE

How Durham, North Carolina, became the first US city to ban police exchanges with Israel

by Zaina Alsous and Sammy Hanf May 18, 2021November 14, 2023
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Meet the 5 women uprooting white beauty standards and white supremacy in West Virginia

by Crystal Good May 11, 2021May 12, 2021
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Author Anjali Enjeti reckons with Asian American identity in white-dominant culture

by Deirdre Sugiuchi May 7, 2021May 7, 2021
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The Jewish South is Black, too

by Nic Yeager April 2, 2021April 2, 2021
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The old devil and the new details

by Mab Segrest March 29, 2021April 29, 2021
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The Southern Tenant Union Playbook

by Sam Russek March 12, 2021March 15, 2021
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Texas' oldest Black university was built on a former plantation. Its students still fight a legacy of voter suppression.

by Alexa Ura, The Texas Tribune March 1, 2021November 13, 2023
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We who believe in freedom cannot rest until it comes

by Anoa Changa February 24, 2021March 3, 2021
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How a Black and Latinx coalition turned utilities back on in LaGrange

by Lewis Raven Wallace February 19, 2021February 19, 2021
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Five Peachy Takeaways: Georgia's grassroots organizing lessons will be valuable in the South for a long time coming

by Anoa Changa January 22, 2021August 20, 2021
Posted inRACE & PLACE

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 inRACE & PLACE

A forgotten coup in the American heartland echoes Trump

by Russell Cobb, The Conversation January 12, 2021January 12, 2021
Posted inRACE & PLACE

Meet the Southern librarians fighting for racial justice and truth-telling

by Jason Christian December 29, 2020November 13, 2023
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE

The obvious solution to Houston's housing crisis: 'Just cease all evictions'

by Sam Russek December 21, 2020September 27, 2023
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE

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

by Iliana Hagenah December 10, 2020November 13, 2023
Posted inARTS & SOUL

8 Dallas artists and a Japanese printer

by Alex Temblador December 4, 2020December 4, 2020
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE

The Last, the Least, and the Lost

by Courtney Napier and Anoa Changa December 3, 2020January 11, 2021
Posted inRACE & PLACE

Safety looks like full bellies in a pandemic

by Courtney Napier November 30, 2020September 27, 2023
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE

Field Notes from the ground in Tennessee—Before, during, and after the election

by Iliana Hagenah November 10, 2020
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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 inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE

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 inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE

Black disillusionment is real, but Black liberation is possible

by Lovey Cooper and Courtney Napier October 16, 2020September 27, 2023
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE

Don't discount the majority of your state: Reaching rural Southern voters

by Lovey Cooper and Courtney Napier October 16, 2020September 27, 2023
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE

Black voting rights experts weigh in on disinformation: We've got your back

by Lovey Cooper and Courtney Napier October 16, 2020September 27, 2023
Posted inARTS & SOUL

Labor organizing from the Olympic podium

by Hannah Borenstein October 9, 2020November 13, 2023
Posted inRACE & PLACE

'Visionary and Pragmatic'—A Black Feminist Guide to Electoral Politics

by Danielle Purifoy October 6, 2020October 6, 2021

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