The Hour of Segregation: Houston Lives in the Time of George Wallace
This is the plantation politic that defines Houston's power structure. The strong donor class often straps non-white people into political leadership as managers of non-white dissent.
Black August honors Black political prisoners and freedom struggles throughout the diaspora. SCALAWAG invites you to recommit yourself to liberation movements and movement media.
Southern politics
Atlanta police training academy recruits allege bullying, favoritism, and abuse
In their complaints, the cadet-whistleblowers portray their specific accusations as symptoms of a systemic problem. They allege a pattern of APD moving officers considered problematic from patrol duties into academy instructor positions, where they might be less likely to generate complaints or litigation than they would if they continued working with the public.
Arts & Soul
Kindred
We are kin, not by crime or country, but by the fierce, shared knowing that we were always more than where they tried to put us.
Race & Place
Global Policing in the Global City: GILEE, Olympification, and expanding the post-9/11 anti-terror apparatus
A national moment of hysteria around terrorism, new laws and technology expanding the government's ability to surveil citizens, and an upsurge in retaliatory hate, repression, and ostracization of Arab and Muslim communities helped catapult police exchanges with Israel.
Essays & Letters
Surviving Fascism: Lessons from Jim Crow
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