ARTS & SOUL Archives – Scalawag

To Whom This May Concern: Jill Scott's Sonic Geography of Black Life

by Da'Shaun Harrison February 19, 2026February 19, 2026

Everywhere we have ever made music, which is to say everywhere we have ever hoped to survive, lives inside this record.

recipes

Recipes

by Sherronda J. Brown November 5, 2025

D'Angelo

A New Theory of Nowhere: Remembering D'Angelo

by Justin A. Davis October 29, 2025October 29, 2025

Ain't Sh*t Changed

Ain't Sh*t Changed

by E. Paris Whitfield August 25, 2025August 27, 2025

The Louisville Art Workshop

The Louisville Art Workshop was never just about art. It stood for community.

by Chadd Scott May 1, 2025May 1, 2025

UPON LEARNING THAT PAPI JUICE JOINED THE PALESTINE ACADEMIC & CULTURAL BOYCOTT OF ISRAEL

by Sa Whitley April 28, 2025

Until Today

by Jada Renée Allen April 28, 2025

patience-in-the-bramble-illustration

PATIENCE IN THE BRAMBLE

by I.S. Jones April 28, 2025May 1, 2025

burial-clothes

Burial Clothes

by Brittany Rogers April 28, 2025

all-the-ghosts-got-loose-again

All the ghosts got loose again

by Kendra Allen April 28, 2025

Sinners, the South, and the Price of Playing the Blues

by Aallyah Wright April 25, 2025April 25, 2025

Resembling Alice in Wonderland, a Black girl tumbles in a floral vortex surrounded by domestic items and playing cards.

Initiation and Time of Arrival

by Yena Sharma Purmasir April 25, 2025April 28, 2025

Green crystals emerge from a floral bed in a cosmic landscape from green crystal skulls undearneath. Etymology of flight, for Cumulative Realities.

etymology of flight – a venn diagram

by dezireé a. brown April 25, 2025April 28, 2025

Illustration of two Black women touching foreheads on a subway, in blue light. The Mayflies Are Like Stars for Cumulative Realities.

The Mayflies Are Like Stars

by Golden. April 25, 2025April 28, 2025

A powerful Black woman seated in a chair in a forest holding a hunting rifle

Cumulative Realities: Queer Poems for the Liberated Future

by Aurielle Marie April 25, 2025April 28, 2025

A Black, masculine figure sits atop a red classic car in the foreground, surrounded by a floral background. For Trans American Sonnet #9. Cumulative Realities.

Trans American Sonnet #9

by MARS. April 25, 2025April 28, 2025

A surreal sunset scene on a city sidewalk. A figure in the foreground followed by another behind. Poem About Policing for Cumulative Realities.

poem about policing

by b ferguson April 25, 2025April 28, 2025

My Hometown of Pensacola was Part of the Chitlin’ Circuit, and I Didn’t Even Know It

When Pensacola was a haven for Black music on the Chitlin' Circuit

by Sierra Lyons April 18, 2025

some money in the dresser drawer and a love letter too

some money in the dresser drawer and a love letter too

by Donnie Moreland March 31, 2025March 31, 2025

grief

Grief is in the kitchen

by Scalawag Editors December 26, 2024

vanguard poems

The Vanguard Poems I & II

by Donnie Moreland December 23, 2024December 23, 2024

grief

Grief doesn't celebrate the holidays

by Scalawag Editors December 23, 2024December 23, 2024

solitary confinement dragon

Solitary Confinement (dragon scales don't bury like gold)

by Donnie Moreland December 20, 2024

belly of the beast

sleeping in the belly of the beast

by Moonbow Reign December 13, 2024

memory work

Memory Work

by Rasha Abdulhadi September 11, 2024

Future Street

Dying on Future Street

by Rasha Abdulhadi September 11, 2024

Another Nakba

On the Eve of yet another Nakba, a Dream

by George Abraham September 11, 2024

In the Open Air

Love Letter From A Poet Under Empire

by mónica teresa ortiz September 5, 2024September 5, 2024

Saul Williams

In The Open Air: Saul Williams on Breathing, Reading, and Resisting

by Aurielle Marie September 3, 2024September 3, 2024

a list of things i did this summer

a list of things i did this summer

by Aarohi Sheth May 29, 2024May 29, 2024