Arts & Soul Archives – Scalawag

Out of the Shadows: The Queer Life of Artist Beauford Delaney

by Tyra A. Seals June 29, 2022June 29, 2022

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.

Scalawag Updates

Read, Watch, Listen, Do: An Abolitionist Media Guide

by Scalawag Editors June 23, 2022June 26, 2022

The abolitionist podcast that reveals how little you know about prison

by Alysia Nicole Harris June 23, 2022June 23, 2022

'I don't want people to judge me by the music that I rap.' How RICO threatens freedom of speech

by Lil Mobb June 22, 2022June 22, 2022

'Impact of an Icon': Grieving Young Dolph in South Memphis

by Dorian Record June 22, 2022June 22, 2022

Hooked on Copaganda: What CoComelon actually teaches kids about police

by Bunny McFadden June 22, 2022June 22, 2022

Southern Politics

This couple wants you to know that conjugal visits are only legal in 4 states

by Steve Higginbotham & Jordana Rosenfeld June 21, 2022June 21, 2022

'I'll never have closure.' What TV gets wrong about having a dad in prison.

by Jordan Gass-Pooré June 20, 2022June 21, 2022

I was on The First 48. Your true-crime obsession is based on lies.

by Demetrius Buckley June 20, 2022June 21, 2022

Mildred's Mississippi: 'Roll of Thunder' as a love letter home

by Adria R. Walker May 24, 2022May 23, 2022

Getting 'Candid' with rapper Ivy Sole

by Taylor Hosking May 10, 2022May 10, 2022

Treva Lindsay and Melissa Harris-Perry on misogynoir, poverty, and violence

by Courtney Napier April 25, 2022April 25, 2022

Poetry & Playlists, Mix 04: Alive & Full

by Aurielle Lucier April 22, 2022April 25, 2022

Poetry & Playlists, Mix 03: The Spaces Between

by mónica teresa ortiz April 15, 2022April 21, 2022

Poetry & Playlists, Mix 02: Rituals

by Alysia Nicole Harris April 8, 2022April 21, 2022

Poetry & Playlists, Mix 01: The Intro

by Scalawag Editors April 1, 2022April 21, 2022

Bilingual in sarcasm y solidaridad

by Alex Temblador March 29, 2022March 29, 2022

How Louisville photographers are keeping Breonna Taylor in focus

by Anna Blake March 22, 2022March 21, 2022

A queer and in-color geography: From Mumbai to West Virginia

by Anjali Enjeti March 3, 2022March 4, 2022

Songs for a South underwater

by Sergio Lopez February 11, 2022February 11, 2022

'All my people come from the hills'

by Alysia Nicole Harris January 25, 2022April 7, 2022

A granddaughter's gratitude

by Andrea Morales, MLK50 January 4, 2022January 3, 2022

How radical feminist politics shaped one of ATL's most beloved neighborhoods

by Neesha Powell-Ingabire December 28, 2021January 19, 2022

Taken outside the changes

by Julian Reid December 8, 2021December 8, 2021

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

by Alysia Nicole Harris November 23, 2021April 19, 2022

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, 2021January 20, 2022