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Here you will find coverage of education, parenting, and the expansive journey of human development as it relates to Southern experience. We believe there is an urgent need for transparency in the public discourse surrounding these topics and their exploration here upholds the potency of intimate and imaginative care work, cultural literacies as worldmaking disciplines, and co-constructed definitions of safety that are grounded in the evidence of our lived experiences.

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The fall and rise of North Carolina's first Black school

by Rupen Fofaria, EdNC.org April 13, 2021November 13, 2023
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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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Reporter's Notebook: The Power of Proximity

by Ko Bragg February 12, 2021November 13, 2023
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How Black kids reclaimed the whitewashed world of 1920's children's literature

by Paige Gray February 8, 2021November 13, 2023
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Student journalists at an HBCU campus newspaper took on racist local media—and won

by Alexis Wray February 2, 2021November 13, 2023
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Pauli Murray: Black revolutionary

by Dolores Chandler January 29, 2021November 13, 2023
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Wake County promised to reconsider cops in schools. When they didn't, students took to the streets.

by Courtney Napier January 26, 2021November 13, 2023
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'When you come to school, you forfeit your rights'

by Courtney Napier January 19, 2021November 13, 2023
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Meet the Southern librarians fighting for racial justice and truth-telling

by Jason Christian December 29, 2020November 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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In Photos: When we couldn't come home

by Philip Harris November 23, 2020November 13, 2023
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Southern Sustenance

by Scalawag Editors November 20, 2020November 13, 2023
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How Georgia and Texas organizers are reimagining the culture of voting

by Anoa Changa October 29, 2020November 13, 2023
Organizers in the Rio Grande Valley worked this summer to ensure people had access to food in neighborhoods with high rates of food insecurity. All photos by Ángela García.
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Love to the RGV from a new generation of activists

by Deana Ayers October 12, 2020November 13, 2023
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Labor organizing from the Olympic podium

by Hannah Borenstein October 9, 2020November 13, 2023
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Campus workers in the right-to-work South are fighting for COVID-19 conditions and beyond

by Mindy Isser September 16, 2020November 13, 2023
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Without profit from stolen Indigenous lands, UNC would have gone broke 100 years ago

by Lucas P. Kelley & Garrett W. Wright September 15, 2020November 13, 2023
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Exposed: UNC pledged neo-confederates $2.5 mil for monument

by L’Erin Jensen July 21, 2020November 13, 2023
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The Remedy: The Costello family's 'next-best thing' spaghetti sauce

by Mike Costello July 14, 2020November 13, 2023
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The Remedy: Mrs. Betty's macaroni-and-cheese

by Cynthia R. Greenlee July 10, 2020November 13, 2023
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How Georgia's court-appointed advocates are failing children and parents

by Arvind Dilawar July 3, 2020November 13, 2023
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The Remedy: Grandma Lacey's Cornbread

by Samantha Willis June 30, 2020November 13, 2023
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Pay the Players: Racial equity and recognition in the NCAA

by Daniel Johnson May 26, 2020November 13, 2023
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In their own words: Children rally for justice for Ahmaud Arbery

by Aminata Traore’ May 19, 2020November 13, 2023
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A Love Letter to Black Queers in the Rural South

by Darius Scott May 12, 2020November 13, 2023
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'Essential, Not Expendable'—Child care workers on the frontlines of COVID-19

by Stell Simonton May 1, 2020November 13, 2023
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Who was Oliver Harvey?

by Alicia Sun and Isabella Arbelaez February 24, 2020November 13, 2023
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Losing Ground

by Alejandra Rosa February 10, 2020November 13, 2023
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In spite of victory on the field, NCAA football players continue to fight off the field to receive their due

by Daniel Johnson January 14, 2020November 13, 2023
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Prison officials cut off higher education for people on North Carolina's Death Row

by Lyle C. May October 28, 2019November 13, 2023

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