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No teacher? Call a cop, says Oklahoma governor

A new state law allows state employees to run public school classrooms with no experience or higher education requirements.

To combat the statewide teacher shortage, Governor Kevin Stitt has allowed state employees—police included—to fill in for substitute teachers. Unsurprisingly, not everyone is comfortable with that solution.

Southern abortion funds that need your help

Reproductive justice organizations you should know about on the 49th anniversary of Roe v. Wade.

On the anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the best way to support reproductive justice is by giving our time and resources to providers and mutual-aid organizations across the South.

Arts & Soul

A queer and in-color geography: From Mumbai to West Virginia

'Another Appalachia: Coming Up Queer and Indian in a Mountain Place' is a graceful exploration of identity, community, and contradictions.

Southern author Anjali Enjeti interviews queer Indian-Appalachian writer Neema Avashia about her debut memoir and the need for intersectional literature about the Mountain South.

Songs for a South underwater

Deep Blues: The music that carried folks through the Great Flood of 1927 to today.

In the wake of callous government responses to the 1927 Great Flood, Black musicians from the Delta produced their own deluge: An outpouring of songs testifying to the destruction wrought along the Mississippi. Nearly 100 years later, not much has changed.

'All my people come from the hills'

In celebration of bell hooks: Three poems from 'Appalachian Elegy: Poetry and Place.'

hooks was one of the rare folks who became an ancestor before death. Ahead of Black history month, these poems help us mourn her transition while celebrating her life.

Taken outside the changes

Jazz vocalist Nnenna Freelon tackles Black love over space, time, and music on her latest album, 'Time Traveler'

Six-time Grammy-nominated jazz vocalist and Durham philanthropist Nnenna Freelon on grief and growing through the changes on her latest album "Time Traveler."

Race & Place

grief & other loves

Scalawag's "grief & other loves" is a reckoning and an invitation. As the late bell hooks wrote in All About Love: Other Visions, "To be loving is to be open to grief, to be touched by sorrow, even sorrow that is unending." 

Requiem for the longleaf pine

The struggle of the longleaf pine can be traced to both New Deal-era welfarism and modern American capitalism.

'The story of longleaf is also the story of the Southern yellow pine. We've just done a really good job of telling the longleaf story.'

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