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Salt, Soil, & Supper

We will gradually nurture and prune this space with seasonal offerings of narratives from the Gulf South that center holistic conversations about environmental justice and climate change, alongside critical explorations of Southern geographies, migration, agriculture, foodways, and food justice. Prepare yourselves for a hearty helping of Salt: Preservation, Soil: Growth and Recovery, & Supper: Nourishment.

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Abolition in the Era of Climate Change

by Aarohi Sheth March 20, 2025March 20, 2025

"Prison labor is the essence of capitalism within the United States. Because of it, there's this mentality of needing to force [incarcerated people] to work and 'pay off' the debt they have to society. With that, comes the idea that we must work incarcerated folks to the bone because they are essentially slaves."

Climate Resilience
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Climate Resilience: A Scalawag Reading List

by Tea Troutman December 23, 2024December 26, 2024
farmworkers
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After Helene and Milton, Farmworkers Play an Outsized Role in the Cleanup

by Siri Chilukuri December 18, 2024December 12, 2024
Who’s Keeping Our History Alive? Black Preservation in South Florida
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Who's Keeping Our History Alive?: Black Preservation in South Florida

by Cordell Jones December 5, 2024December 5, 2024
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Worse Than the Winds: A slow recovery after the damage

by Amanda Ostuni August 21, 2024August 25, 2024
Weathering the Storm
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Weathering Storms

by Amanda Ostuni August 13, 2024August 13, 2024
A look at some of the destruction left behind by Hurricane Ida in 2021. These photos are from Houma and Dulac, Louisiana
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After the Aftermath: Disaster Gentrification in Louisiana's Bayous

by Amanda Ostuni August 1, 2024August 5, 2024
a list of things i did this summer
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a list of things i did this summer

by Aarohi Sheth May 29, 2024May 29, 2024
Pothole
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Pothole

by Jack Morillo May 29, 2024May 31, 2024
Giving Jim Grace
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Giving Jim Grace

by Joshua Burton May 29, 2024May 31, 2024
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East End Preserve, Galveston TX

by Maha Abdelwahab May 29, 2024May 29, 2024
Rescuers use an old row boat to evacuate children from their flooded homes in Gulfport, Mississippi, after Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast on Monday, August 29, 2005. (AP Photo/John Bazemore) Over 18 years after Hurricane Katrina, survivors' ongoing battles with trauma, mental health, and PTSD reveal the long shadow of environmental racism on Black mental health.
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The hidden toll of Hurricane Katrina on the mental health of Black survivors

by Maya Richard-Craven November 22, 2023November 22, 2023
Residents seek higher ground on the roof of a home as floodwaters from Hurricane Katrina cover the streets on Tuesday, August 30, 2005 in New Orleans. (AP Photo/ Vincent Laforet, Pool) What we can learn from Hurricane Katrina preparedness failures and the deep inequities in federal disaster response efforts they exposed.
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How Hurricane Katrina changed disaster preparedness and community response

by Yasmin Garaad November 16, 2023November 16, 2023
The weather bears witness: On calamity, rebirth, and Blackness in the face of climate crisis and the chaos of the natural world. "Perhaps in every wind roaring, in every storm raging, our ancestors are not only watching over us, but watching out for us."
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Emergence

by Cherise Morris September 28, 2023September 28, 2023
A boarded up abandoned house is graffitied with a "Stop Cop City" tag, Thursday, July 20, 2023, in Atlanta. Activists with the Stop Cop City Vote Coalition are trying to get the signatures of more than 70,000 Atlanta residents by Aug. 14 to force a referendum allowing voters to decide the fate of a proposed police and firefighter training center. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson) Mutual aid allows movements to resist and transform oppressive systems. It could also be what ultimately sustains us against climate change.
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Mutual aid strengthens ATL's abolitionist organizing work

by Julian Rose September 28, 2023September 28, 2023
Stranded New Orleans residents watch as a helicopter evacuates others near the Superdome sports stadium August 31, 2005. Authorities have begun evacuating thousands from the damaged Superdome where living conditions have worsened since Hurricane Katrina struck on August 29, 2005. REUTERS/Jason Reed JIR/JK - RP6DRMZYNMAC Insufficient government response to the Maui wildfires follows a pattern of state abandonment forged in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
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From Katrina to Maui, Disaster Capitalism continues to exploit across many 'Souths'

by Cierra Chenier September 27, 2023September 27, 2023
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.
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Florida's jails put incarcerated people's lives at risk during hurricane season

by Angel D’Angelo September 12, 2023September 27, 2023
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Illegal migration from Gaza by sea

by Rami Almeghari June 29, 2023November 14, 2023
The geography of disaster, storms, and prison.
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Perfect Storm: A time to refrain from embracing

by Richard Hunsinger June 23, 2023September 27, 2023
Inside the struggle of farmers and industrial workers in Gaza as Palestinians face exposure to environmental racism under Israeli blockade.
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How Palestinian farmers and clothing workers struggle under Israeli blockade

by Rami Almeghari June 23, 2023November 14, 2023
The devastating impact of environmental racism in prisons.
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Poisoned Inside

by C. Dreams June 23, 2023September 27, 2023
The headquarters of New Orleans Musicians Assistance Foundation, the nonprofit that operates the Musicians' Clinic. Every month, the Foundation pays Bethany Bultman and her husband Johann $4,094 in rent for its use of the building for its offices. Photo by Trenity Thomas for Scalawag.
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Plantation Politics: The New Orleans Musicians' Clinic's crisis of credibility

by Drew Hawkins June 1, 2023September 27, 2023
Forever New Orleans tourism campaign advertisements. Illustrations by Keysha Rivera.
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Disaster capitalism, climate change, and the campaign to sell Black New Orleans

by Nicole Young May 31, 2023September 27, 2023
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How 'the shadow of state abandonment' fostered then foiled Young Thug's YSL

by Justin A. Davis February 9, 2023December 14, 2023
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Cop City, Gentrification, and Young Thug: Atlanta's uneven war over greenspace in 'The City of the Forest'

by Justin A. Davis February 9, 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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The White Lotus is supposed to be satire. Hawaiians deserve the last laugh.

by Mariah Rigg September 12, 2022December 4, 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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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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Bilingual in sarcasm y solidaridad

by Alex Temblador March 29, 2022September 27, 2023

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