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'We have to evaluate the motives of health care institutions'

by Alysia Nicole Harris September 9, 2021September 21, 2021
Posted inARTS & SOUL

In portraits and letters: 'Being free is not the same as freedom'

by Jason Kerzinski August 17, 2021November 16, 2022
Posted inRACE & PLACE

Soul City: A Black dream killed just as it was coming true

by Danielle Purifoy July 27, 2021July 29, 2021
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White tears will never be the solution

by Matt Hartman March 19, 2021April 1, 2021
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Reporter's Notebook: The Power of Proximity

by Ko Bragg February 12, 2021November 13, 2023
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE

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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Essential Reading: Black History and Black Futures

by Scalawag Editors February 1, 2021February 1, 2021
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Pauli Murray: Black revolutionary

by Dolores Chandler January 29, 2021November 13, 2023
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When God Calls My Name

by Ashley M. Jones January 11, 2021October 4, 2021
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'A democracy we didn't achieve 50 years ago'

by Alice Driver January 5, 2021January 5, 2021
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Behind the scenes in Black Appalachia

by Crystal Good December 23, 2020December 23, 2020
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE

To shift the media narrative about the South, we have to rebuild it altogether

by Anoa Changa December 17, 2020December 17, 2020
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'If I asked my family to get rid of a bumper sticker, they would tell me to quit my job.'

by Anonymous December 17, 2020February 4, 2025
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE

I ran from my church after Trayvon Martin's murder—but not from my religion

by Courtney Napier December 17, 2020December 18, 2020
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The first Black drag queen in North Alabama and other untold stories of the Queer South

by Sarah Prager November 17, 2020November 14, 2023
Posted inRACE & PLACE

'I wanted to wear a purple ball gown with a crimson silk cape'

by Cynthia R. Greenlee November 3, 2020November 3, 2020
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE

The new-new and old-new of 'unprecedented' times

by Zaina Alsous and Scalawag Editors October 30, 2020April 16, 2021
Posted inRACE & PLACE

Sweet (and sticky) redemption

by Maurice Bailey & Nik Heynen September 29, 2020September 27, 2023
Nurses at HCA's Mission Hospital in Asheville, North Carolina. Photo from the National Nurses Organizing Committee/National Nurses United.
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Asheville nurses reflect on the largest labor victory at a Southern nonunion hospital since 1975

by Zaina Alsous September 25, 2020November 16, 2022
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Lessons from rural communities in the crusade to save the USPS

by Alicia Carter & Haley France September 8, 2020November 21, 2023
Posted inRACE & PLACE

Q&A: Ajamu Dillahunt, long-time civil rights organizer and former USPS union president

by Jonathan Michels September 7, 2020October 1, 2020
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'Imagine not just the end of prisons, but the end of a society that could have prisons'

by Alysia Nicole Harris August 26, 2020November 21, 2023
Posted inRACE & PLACE

Letter from a New Normal: Finding hope in purgatory

by DANTE August 20, 2020November 21, 2023
Posted inRACE & PLACE

Field Notes from the Inside: Women in Florida prisons share glimpses of COVID-19 lockdowns

by MARINA BUENO & BOUDICCA August 18, 2020November 21, 2023
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Introducing Abolition Week

by Scalawag Team and Scalawag Editors August 17, 2020March 15, 2022
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(Past) Virtual event—Casting Shadows: the prison in our daily lives

by Scalawag Team August 14, 2020November 21, 2023
Posted inRACE & PLACE

As ICE travel bans target international students, communities resist through care

by Anastasia Kārkliņa July 17, 2020September 27, 2023
Posted inARTS & SOUL

The Remedy: The Costello family's 'next-best thing' spaghetti sauce

by Mike Costello July 14, 2020November 13, 2023
Posted inARTS & SOUL

The Remedy: Mrs. Betty's macaroni-and-cheese

by Cynthia R. Greenlee July 10, 2020November 13, 2023
Posted inRACE & PLACE

In the quest for abolition, America must learn from Haiti

by Marina Magloire July 6, 2020July 2, 2021

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