Arts & Soul Archives – Scalawag

Queer Black grxl survival in the thick of it all: Aurielle Marie's Gumbo Ya Ya

by Alysia Nicole Harris November 23, 2021December 1, 2021

Poet, essayist, and winner of the 2020 Cave Canem Poetry Prize Aurielle Marie sits down with Alysia Nicole Harris to discuss their debut collection, 'Gumbo Ya Ya.'

The Black opera that stunned America's most segregated stage

by Frances Madeson November 11, 2021November 11, 2021

The longest-running Indigenous radio show in Texas

by Pauly Denetclaw, Texas Observer October 19, 2021October 18, 2021

In photos: Afropunk 2021 is a queer, Black homecoming

by Noella Williams October 1, 2021October 6, 2021

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

by Julie Poole September 28, 2021September 28, 2021

'The rest of the world tells us that these bodies are killing us'

by Ko Bragg September 2, 2021December 3, 2021

In portraits and letters: 'Being free is not the same as freedom'

by Jason Kerzinski August 17, 2021August 30, 2021

In Review: 'Can these bones live?'

by W.J. Lofton July 23, 2021July 23, 2021

For Black cowboys—from inner-city Philly to small-town Texas—horses and riding are a way of life

by Nick Lehr, The Conversation July 16, 2021

A prisoner's apothecary: Solitary Gardens reimagines six-by-nine cells

by Roshan Abraham, Next City June 30, 2021June 30, 2021

In Photos: Desde Adentro (From Within)

by ITAMA Youth June 24, 2021June 24, 2021

Akwaeke Emezi: 'A dead thing sentenced to life'

by Ko Bragg June 11, 2021August 9, 2021

Killer Mike's radical lyrics are masking reformist politics

by Nicholas Vila Byers June 8, 2021June 28, 2021

Author Anjali Enjeti reckons with Asian American identity in white-dominant culture

by Deirdre Sugiuchi May 7, 2021May 7, 2021

A Prophet Without Eyes: Pauli Murray's Moment

by Brenna M. Casey April 30, 2021October 6, 2021

In the face of anti-trans bills, 'Mama Gloria' is a blessing

by Antonia Randolph April 23, 2021April 23, 2021

Freedom wasn't given—it was seized

by Samantha Willis April 6, 2021April 7, 2021

'T-Pain was important because he was ours'

by Israel Daramola March 8, 2021March 8, 2021

Review: One Night in Miami

by Khayla Deans February 23, 2021March 3, 2021

This is damn sure not our grandparents' rhythm and blues

by Marcus K. Dowling February 16, 2021February 16, 2021

Let Black Art Tell It

by Alysia Nicole Harris February 15, 2021February 15, 2021

The Color of Freedom: Reimagining portraits of the formerly enslaved

by Lee Hedgepeth February 5, 2021February 5, 2021

Behind the scenes in Black Appalachia

by Crystal Good December 23, 2020December 23, 2020

Before Charlie Parker, there was Lester Young

by Brian Major December 9, 2020December 9, 2020

The Mutual Musicians Foundation is fighting the gentrification of Jazz in Kansas City

by Zeb Larson December 8, 2020December 9, 2020

There Goes the Neighborhood: What really caused the decline of 18th & Vine

by Zeb Larson December 8, 2020December 9, 2020

From Appalachia to Outer Space: The beauty and the limits of perspective in Portraits & Dreams

by Kim Kobersmith December 7, 2020December 7, 2020

8 Dallas artists and a Japanese printer

by Alex Temblador December 4, 2020December 4, 2020

Poetry from Jericho Brown, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, & Taylor Johnson

by Alysia Nicole Harris December 1, 2020December 3, 2020

Exits from solitude—Poems we need right now

by Alysia Nicole Harris November 27, 2020December 3, 2020