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How the criminalization of Black parenthood hurts Black children

How the criminalization of Black parenthood hurts Black children

by Alexis J. Smith December 11, 2024December 12, 2024

Who’s Keeping Our History Alive? Black Preservation in South Florida

Who's Keeping Our History Alive?: Black Preservation in South Florida

by Cordell Jones December 5, 2024December 5, 2024

We Are The BreadCrumbs: What Trans Alabamians Already Know About The Election

POLITICS & THE PEOPLE

We Are The BreadCrumbs: What Trans Alabamians Already Know About The Election

by T.C. Caldwell and Jose Vazquez November 4, 2024November 4, 2024

Columbia SC Rallies to Honor The Candy Shop, once a Landmark Black Gay Bar

The Candy Shop: Columbia SC Rallies to Honor Landmark Black Gay Bar

by Marianne Dhenin October 29, 2024October 28, 2024

Mckesson v Doe

POLITICS & THE PEOPLE

Mckesson v. Doe, Southern Dissent, and Protest Repression

by Sierra Lyons October 16, 2024October 16, 2024

Surviving the Crash

Surviving the Crash

by Ryan Ken May 31, 2024May 31, 2024

Giving Jim Grace

Giving Jim Grace

by Joshua Burton May 29, 2024May 31, 2024

Hell and High Water: From Gaza to Mississippi

Hell and High Water: From Gaza to Mississippi

by Mary Annaïse Heglar May 2, 2024August 27, 2024

Brown Eyes in a Blue-Eyed World

Brown Eyes in a Blue-Eyed World

by Kahlia Phillips March 27, 2024March 27, 2024

The World Since You Left—Episode 3 of Great Grief with Nnenna Freelon, Season 2: Seasons of Change. Listen and read along with the podcast transcript.

Ashes, Ashes

by Nnenna Freelon December 7, 2023December 14, 2023

The changing seasons are an apt metaphor to talk about the shedding, withering, and falling away that accompanies the most painful parts of grief. Nnenna Freelon takes us on a walk through the woods to contemplate autumn and the possibility of renewal.

Falling

by Nnenna Freelon November 28, 2023December 14, 2023

A wife for nearly 40 years, Nnenna Freelon now wonders what to make of the term widow when she still feels the significance of her marriage well after her husband's death in Black Widow, the final installment in the season of Great Grief, Wailing Women.

Black Widow

by Nnenna Freelon November 21, 2023November 28, 2023

Hair holds our history, personality, identity—and our grief. In episode 3 of Great Grief, Nnenna Freelon visits her mother’s beauty salon, where generations of Black women have gathered to discuss their hairstory—the grief over it, and the grief under it.

Hairstory

by Nnenna Freelon November 21, 2023November 28, 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."

Emergence

by Cherise Morris September 28, 2023September 28, 2023

No woman makes it through life without a sister. Through faith, family, and struggle, we inhabit a deep solidarity that allows us to hold one another close, even at the very end. In episode 2 of Great Grief, Nnenna Freelon walks us through her journey of losing her sister, Debbie. Listen and read along with the podcast transcript.

Sister Sister

by Nnenna Freelon September 27, 2023November 13, 2023

Photographer Justin Hardiman, a collaborator with Jasmine Williams and Sarah Jené’s 'How We Get Over: We Grow On' project at the Mississippi Museum of Art, shares stunning portraits and excerpts from his audio-visual project, 'The Color of Grief.'

The Color of Grief

by Justin Hardiman September 22, 2023September 25, 2023

When Grief Speaks—Episode 1 of Great Grief with Nnenna Freelon, Season 1: Wailing Women. Grief is a woman with plenty to say. In the first episode of Great Grief, Nnenna Freelon asks us to consider what happens if we stop running from our grief, sit down, and listen to her for a change. Listen, subscribe, and read along with the podcast transcript.

When Grief Speaks

by Nnenna Freelon September 13, 2023September 29, 2023

Grammy-nominated jazz vocalist Nnenna Freelon is partnering with Scalawag to bring our audiences three fresh seasons of Great Grief, her original podcast honoring the stories and songs of Black women who have faced grief and loss.

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'Great Grief' finds a new home at Scalawag

by Alysia Nicole Harris and Scalawag Team August 23, 2023September 13, 2023

A Grief of Our Own

by Alysia Nicole Harris August 4, 2023September 29, 2023

Schistostega pennata: grief & the luminous land

by Alysia Nicole Harris August 1, 2023August 4, 2023

An abolitionist review of the Barbie movie's imaginative universe serves as a reminder that systemic oppression can indeed be destroyed.

Barbie: Pretty Police

by Eteng Ettah July 27, 2023July 27, 2023

Dark Matter, a sestina poem by Kelsey Smoot, is a complicating and uncompromising ode to Black womxn, exploring reflexes and returns of gender.

"Dark Matter": A poem for grief & other loves

by Kelsey Smoot July 25, 2023July 25, 2023

Mausoleums: The Art of Necromancy

by Jaiden Butler July 25, 2023November 13, 2023

"Pull up your pants or go to jail!"

by Justin A. Davis June 30, 2023June 30, 2023

Inside the post-Roe crisis of abortion and surveillance facing pregnant incarcerated people seeking and reproductive justice.

Abortion bans and pregnancy surveillance: The body itself as a prison

by Gabrielle A. Perry June 28, 2023February 20, 2025

A Black mother in prison exposes the greed and hypocrisy of the system that keeps her behind bars and rips apart families.

Only Mercy

by Chanell Burnette June 27, 2023November 13, 2023

Another kind of Memphis Blues

by Justin A. Davis June 15, 2023June 15, 2023

Producing music from prison.

Young Tali is making music by any means necessary

by Zeb Larson June 13, 2023June 12, 2023

Forever New Orleans tourism campaign advertisements. Illustrations by Keysha Rivera.

Disaster capitalism, climate change, and the campaign to sell Black New Orleans

by Nicole Young May 31, 2023September 27, 2023

Victim or survivor? The language of patriarchal violence. Assigning language of victimhood or survival to those who have experienced gender violence is dehumanizing—not empowering.

Who said we all survived?

by Breya M. Johnson May 25, 2023May 24, 2023