Arts & Soul Archives – Scalawag

Behind the scenes in Black Appalachia

by Crystal Good December 23, 2020December 23, 2020

Movies like "Hillbilly Elegy" erase the legacy of Black folk in Appalachia. Affrilachian writer Crystal Good shares her experience of the Black folks creating, struggling, and thriving behind the scenes.

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 Harris December 1, 2020December 3, 2020

Exits from solitude—Poems we need right now

by Alysia Harris November 27, 2020December 3, 2020

In Photos: When we couldn't come home

by Philip Harris November 23, 2020November 23, 2020

The first Black drag queen in North Alabama and other untold stories of the Queer South

by Sarah Prager November 17, 2020December 3, 2020

Why drill and trap are the soundtrack of this generation's protests

by Nicholas Vila Byers November 13, 2020November 13, 2020

Forgotten protest icon Odetta Holmes lives on in modern Black Americana

by Chelsea Spear October 23, 2020December 11, 2020

When all hell breaks loose, North Carolina returns to the cypher

by Kyesha Jennings October 13, 2020October 13, 2020

Sprint Nation: The South's track stars are after more than medals

by Hannah Borenstein October 9, 2020October 9, 2020

The story of '2 Quarter George,' New Orleans draughtsman

by Frances Madeson September 23, 2020September 23, 2020

Sasha Rewrites Uhmareka

by Jamara Wakefield September 22, 2020December 3, 2020

Carrie Mae Weems and arts institutions step in where Southern governments fall short on COVID-19

by Alex Temblador September 14, 2020September 16, 2020

In conversation with People4USPS, crafting a creative blueprint for solidarity through the mail

by Zaina Alsous September 11, 2020December 3, 2020

Jesus walks into a drag bar: Birmingham's alternative drag scene

by Haley Bosselman September 4, 2020September 16, 2020

Perspectives on incarceration and abolition you should be listening to

by Alysia Harris August 21, 2020December 3, 2020

If your name ever falls on a prison roster: What I know now.

by EDUARDO MARTINEZ August 19, 2020December 3, 2020

This I Know For Sure: Remembrance and freedom in Jaki Shelton Green's The River Speaks of Thirst

by Alysia Harris August 12, 2020December 3, 2020

'I hate that thug music.' How 'progressive' music outlets fuel false arrests in the trap scene

by Nicholas Vila Byers August 10, 2020September 16, 2020

Drive-in wrestling: West Virginia's solution to pandemic cabin fever

by Emily Allen for WVPB July 31, 2020September 16, 2020

The Remedy: The Costello family's 'next-best thing' spaghetti sauce

by Mike Costello July 14, 2020November 19, 2020

White food media and the commodification of resistance

by Tunde Wey July 13, 2020October 1, 2020

The Remedy: Mrs. Betty's macaroni-and-cheese

by Cynthia R. Greenlee July 10, 2020November 19, 2020

The Remedy: Grandma Lacey's Cornbread

by Samantha Willis June 30, 2020November 19, 2020

Postcolonial Love Poem: 'How do you maintain your tenderness?'

by mónica teresa ortiz June 24, 2020December 3, 2020

Breathing while Black in Mossville, Louisiana

by Danielle Purifoy June 18, 2020October 21, 2020