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South to South: A Scalawag Reading List
If there is to be an abolitionist future, the seeds of those chains' undoing are sewn across multiple Souths.
Climate Resilience: A Scalawag Reading List
The South is a region that suffers from structural antiBlackness and the afterlife of the plantation's insistence on underdeveloping crucial infrastructures that protect against and speed recovery from extreme weather events.
Abolitionist Politics and Incarcerated Perspectives: A Scalawag Reading List
As an Abolitionist publication, stories focused on the prison industrial complex—as well as all carceral social systems that discipline us into policing ourselves and one another—remain Scalawag's foremost publishing priority.
Southern Cultures: A Scalawag Reading List
As a Southern publication, Scalawag is committed to defining and redefining the way "The South" is conceptualized in cultural discourses, as we, at the same time, uplift storytelling that centers the lived experience and perspectives of folks living in and native to the South.
It's time for progressive philanthropy to commit to funding journalism
People have to hear about movements in order to join them. And they have to hear about them from sources that cover them accurately, accountably, and knowledgeably, imparting lessons that allow this work to be replicated and to grow.
Remembering Imam Jamil al-Amin
From the South and beyond, we mourn the passing of Black Revolutionary and Islamic faith leader, Imam Jamil Abdullah al-Amin, who transitioned in federal prison custody on November 23, 2025 at the age of 82.