Arts & Soul Archives – Scalawag

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

by Deirdre Sugiuchi May 7, 2021May 7, 2021

South Asian organizer Anjali Enjeti, author of two new books—Southbound and The Parted Earth—discusses the model minority myth, white Evangelical extremism, and developing radically inclusive movements.

A Prophet Without Eyes: Pauli Murray's Moment

by Brenna M. Casey April 30, 2021April 30, 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 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 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, 2020February 10, 2021

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, 2020February 10, 2021

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, 2020February 10, 2021

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, 2020February 10, 2021

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

by EDUARDO MARTINEZ August 19, 2020December 3, 2020