How the People's Cup in Atlanta Defied a Damaging Lineage
As the eyes of the sports world return to Atlanta this summer, conditions are once again ripe for the event to fuel more displacement, repression, and profiteering. Once again, the powerful will fight to use sports as a vehicle for the worst compulsions of late-stage capitalism – albeit fully necessary and wholly inevitable as strategy…
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
Houston Birth Workers Respond to the Black Maternal Health Crisis
Panelists emphasized the need to decrease our dependency on carceral systems and solutions like the family policing system, which is also destroying the ability for Black people and Black birthgivers to live lives free of surveillance—which has been masked as a way to achieve "safety"—and violence, as it is rooted in white supremacy and racism.…
Arts & Soul
Astrodome Feb 23, 2001
Even when the song competes my cotton candy pink regale keeps up the sugar stays The airs gone on the latest train to Georgia.
Race & Place
The Black Census Project
Again and again, Black communities treated democracy not as a gift to be gratefully received, but as a system that could and must be made to work as advertised.
Essays & Letters
Surviving Fascism: Lessons from Jim Crow
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