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Reckoning with white supremacy: Five fundamentals for white folks

by Lovey Cooper June 1, 2020December 26, 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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Profit over people: Inside an Appalachian struggle to save rural healthcare

by Katie Myers April 10, 2020September 16, 2020
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Medical neglect, illegal detention, and retaliation in ICE's Deep South stronghold

by Carly Berlin September 23, 2019September 27, 2023
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A letter to Black mamas

by Courtney Sebring and Aaron Bryant May 13, 2019November 13, 2023
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Queer love and struggle in Jackson, Mississippi

by Zachary Oren Smith April 15, 2019November 14, 2023
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Toppling giants: painting the removal of confederate monuments

by Ben Hamburger January 14, 2019September 16, 2020
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Civility Is Not Solidarity: An Editorial Call to Action

by Zaina Alsous June 28, 2018September 27, 2023
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Fed up Kentucky teachers aim to oust conniving officials

by ivy Brashear April 24, 2018September 16, 2020
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In the U.S., dreaming of Honduras

by Natalie Yahr February 27, 2018September 27, 2023
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Mississippi's truth-telling new museum

by Ellen Ann Fentress December 22, 2017September 16, 2020
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White churches "aren't naming racism as a sin," says Rob Lee

by Sammy Hanf September 14, 2017October 1, 2020
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I witnessed terrorism in Charlottesville from a foot away

by David Straughn August 16, 2017October 1, 2020
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Editorial: Resistance lives in the South

by Scalawag Editors August 10, 2017April 16, 2021
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How do you beat plantation power?

by Danielle Purifoy March 15, 2017September 27, 2023
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The South knows about White backlash. Here's what Reconstruction can teach us about today's crisis.

by David Eil February 1, 2017January 6, 2021
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What the Moral Monday Movement can teach us about resisting Trump

by Katherine Demby January 20, 2017September 16, 2020
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Photo essay: Southerners shut down the Klan

by Zoe Litaker December 7, 2016September 16, 2020
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A dispatch from the streets of Charlotte

by Danielle Purifoy September 22, 2016October 1, 2020
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How to fight the power company

by Scott Davis August 11, 2016September 27, 2023
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Atlanta in (trans)formation

by Anna Simonton July 15, 2016September 16, 2020
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In photos: solidarity with Orlando in Atlanta

by Camille Pendley June 17, 2016October 1, 2020
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Why we fight for 15

by Anna Simonton April 19, 2016September 16, 2020
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Disobedience comes to the Capitol

by John Whitaker April 18, 2016September 16, 2020
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Updates from the fight against H.B. 2 in North Carolina

by Maura Friedman March 31, 2016September 16, 2020
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We Have a Duty to Win

by Anna Simonton July 8, 2015September 16, 2020

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