Dirty Energy and the Lost Promise of the TVA
The TVA might have failed to live up to its democratic ambitions and the hopes that it would be an example of "democracy on the march," as Lilienthal titled his history of the TVA. But it, or something like it, could be a viable strategy toward planning a just climate future.
Over the past few months, we've lost critical funding because we stand in solidarity with the most oppressed. We told the truth. And that makes some people uncomfortable. But we didn't build Scalawag for comfort. We built it for liberation.
Southern politics
Death By Black Excellence
This pathology operates on a dual axis that prevents meaningful discourse about the material conditions we as Black people face, all while obscuring the diversity of the elite class that perpetuates it.
Arts & Soul
We Sinners, Born Again in the Breaking
Last time I seen the sun, it was midnight in the juke joint, horns crying through blue smoke, bodies glowing like stained glass, footsteps melting into heart pine.
Race & Place
Bombing Iran: Crude Oil Gulf Extraction and Gulf South Petro-Devastation
The same logic that organizes the extraction of the Global South organizes the domestic South. The plantation did not disappear, and the Middle Passage lives on.
Essays & Letters
Surviving Fascism: Lessons from Jim Crow
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