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Getting 'Candid' with rapper Ivy Sole
Ivy Sole's latest record 'Candid' acknowledges hard truths: making peace with the double-edged sword of trying to live ethically while extending empathy to people who've hurt you.
Media for good trouble.
Liberation lives here.
Southern politics

In Texas' most populated counties, people-power and political power go hand-in-hand
Texas Organizing Project rallies its 285,000 members to keep momentum with some 6 million voters in the state's most populated counties between election cycles.
Florida's problems—and their solutions—are a bellwether for the South at large
Florida Rising is empowering organizers and redirecting resources to address government failings and shift the balance of power across the state.
How millennial and Gen Z organizers are moving Mississippi beyond Jim Crow
Mississippi Votes invests in year-round community-building to build momentum for long-term political change.
'This plan is a lie.' How biogas could do more harm than good for the hog industry
Energy utilities have invested hundreds of millions of dollars into a waste management system they say could turn hog industry problems into profits.
'Justifiable police homicide' and the ruse of American justice
Samaria Rice, Da'Shaun Harrison, and Joy James critique legal studies and discuss the violence of the state in the wake of the U.S. Department of Justice's refusal to reopen investigation into the murder of Tamir Rice.
Arts & Soul

Treva Lindsay and Melissa Harris-Perry on misogynoir, poverty, and violence
Durham's Rofhiwa Book Cafe hosted Melissa Harris-Perry in conversation with the author about the violence perpetrated against Black women in the South and across the nation.
Poetry & Playlists, Mix 04: Alive & Full
Poems by Faylita Hicks, Victoria Newton Ford, and Kiki Nicole take center stage in our last installment of Poetry & Playlists, curated by Lambda Literary Award Finalist Aurielle Marie.
Poetry & Playlists, Mix 03: The Spaces Between
Poetry from Ebony Stewart, Ariana Brown, Óscar Moisés Díaz. From page, to stage, to stars, these Southern poets, performers, and astrologers force us to reckon with the spaces between us for this installment of Poetry & Playlists.
Poetry & Playlists, Mix 02: Rituals
This week's poems confront a generation's exhaustion with belief systems that don't know what to make of our bodies: Black bodies, Queer bodies, Stolen bodies, Hungry bodies. Poetry from Aldo Amparán, Ra Malika Imhotep, and W.J. Lofton.
Poetry & Playlists, Mix 01: The Intro
Scalawag kicks off National Poetry Month with the first installment of Poetry & Playlists, featuring new poems by ATL's Aurielle Marie, Texas-based necropoet mónica teresa ortiz, and Scalawag arts & soul editor Alysia Nicole Harris.
Race & Place

in Grief
For black folks in an antiblack world, it's impossible to ever truly heal from intergenerational trauma, Da'Shaun Harrison writes.
Incarcerated Muslims in Florida celebrated Eid with limited accommodations
During the month of Ramadan, Muslims worldwide participate in ritual fasting and communal celebrations. The 10,000 Muslims incarcerated in Florida's prisons struggle to do so under discriminatory accommodations.
'Left to hold my grief alone.' Grieving platonic love in a culture of romantic domination.
When society places undue importance on romantic relationships, unpartnered people—and other kinds of love—are shunned to the margins.
Bilingual in sarcasm y solidaridad
The independent Latinx podcast covering everything from art to anti-Blackness, music to voting, and queer identities to white supremacy, with dry wit and sarcastic humor.
How Louisville photographers are keeping Breonna Taylor in focus
It's been two years since Breonna Taylor was killed by police. In her honor, Louisville photographers continue to capture state violence, calling for accountability and the end of militarized policing—at home and around…
Long reads

Songs for a South underwater

Without paid leave, the South's COVID school policies cause a terrible trickle down for families

The Black opera that stunned America's most segregated stage

Florida's legacy of slow-rolling parole keeps thousands of people behind bars—some, for decades past their eligibility date

New Urbanism sells faux sustainability as a luxury on Florida's 30A

Mississippi's childhood lead exposure interventions don't do enough for kids
Field notes
Essays & Letters

A granddaughter's gratitude


In photos: Afropunk 2021 is a queer, Black homecoming

Contraband Books: What Texas prisons have against Michelle Alexander, Frederick Douglass, and Alice Walker

'We've come this far by faith:' Vaccines, religion, and community in Arkansas
