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Out of the Shadows: The Queer Life of Artist Beauford Delaney
Revered by Georgia O'Keeffe, James Baldwin, and many more, queer Southern painter Beauford Delaney was almost lost to history. Black arts organizers are recovering his legacy for audiences from Knoxville to Paris.
Media for good trouble.
Liberation lives here.
Southern politics
Contrary to popular belief, healthcare in prison is far from free. Sometimes, it can cost your life.
Seven states in the nation—all in the South—prohibit those in prison from making money yet still charge medical fees. The physical and financial costs can follow incarcerated workers for years.
This couple wants you to know that conjugal visits are only legal in 4 states
There are only four U.S. states that currently allow conjugal visits. Couple Steve Higginbotham and Jordana Rosenfeld discuss the rules strangling intimacy on the inside.
Virginia was primed to teach Black history. Then the nation's first anti-critical race theory governor took office.
Governor Glenn Youngkin banned 'divisive' curriculum in Virginia. Students and teachers say 'there's a complete lack of clarity' on what that even means.
Abolition, popular culture, and justice: introducing 'pop justice'
"We did not come out of the womb abolitionists, but many of us feel born into this work. And as we push back against the prevailing, popular narratives about cops and prisons, we also want to make abolition more accessible."
Q&A: Southern abortion providers on what the media's getting wrong
A conversation with abortion workers across the South to unpack the performative nature of abortion coverage, share paths toward refocusing the reporting, and explain the intersections between abortion care and abolition work.
Arts & Soul
The abolitionist podcast that reveals how little you know about prison
For something realer than any episode of Orange is the New Black, check out Teleway 411, a new podcast on queer life in prison from A.B.O. Comix.
'I don't want people to judge me by the music that I rap.' How RICO threatens freedom of speech
From inside a Mississippi prison, Lil Mobb shares new songs and a desire to not be judged by the music he raps.
'Impact of an Icon': Grieving Young Dolph in South Memphis
Up and coming rapper South Memphis Babyface reflects on losing Young Dolph, "somebody I looked up to, somebody that inspired the world."
Hooked on Copaganda: What CoComelon actually teaches kids about police
Showing cop toys and cop futures in their favorite pretend classroom teaches children police are safe when stories from the real world counter this almost daily.
'I'll never have closure.' What TV gets wrong about having a dad in prison.
For the 5 million people with an incarcerated parent, prison dramas depict everything but the hard realities of blame and closure families face.
Race & Place
What the history books won't tell you about abolition
From the Quakers to the Black Panthers to your neighborhood sex workers, as long as there's been police, communities have created their own systems to replace them.
'An unmanned, evil environment': Ashley Diamond and other trans women on life inside prison
From understaffing to "the meat show" to the art of pretty-making in prison, trans women share the realities of life inside prison.
I was on The First 48. Your true-crime obsession is based on lies.
After 12 years of seeing false narratives play out about him on The First 48, Demetrius Buckley calls out true crime for what it really is: exploitation that reruns peoples' worst moments for…
'Young people need power.' Southern students on safety, accountability, and what they need from adults
"Do something. Pass legislation. 'Thoughts and prayers' without action to prevent tragedy is faith without works."
Mildred's Mississippi: 'Roll of Thunder' as a love letter home
Often conspicuously absent from the typical pantheon of writers from Mississippi, Taylor's books are consequential to the story of the state.