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RACE & PLACE

Scalawag's Race & Place coverage pushes the boundaries of traditional conversations about incarceration, segregation, gentrification, nutrition, migration, liberation, and more. We examine the role and legacy of race in the places that form the South—from porches and penitentiaries, to places of worship and port cities.

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Toxic Confinement

by Sessi Kuwabara Blanchard July 15, 2019October 27, 2020
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Toothless, cousin loving

by Katherine Webb-Hehn July 15, 2019December 3, 2020
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Why North Carolina keeps many parole-eligible prisoners behind bars

by Lyle C. May July 8, 2019October 1, 2020
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Listen: Going home for my small town's first LGBTQ pride

by Monique LaBorde July 1, 2019October 1, 2020
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Green From Below

by Zaina Alsous June 24, 2019September 27, 2023
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Banking on Black Women: Inside Maggie Walker's Financial Empire

by Elena Botella June 17, 2019March 20, 2023
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"Brooklynization" my ass

by Katherine Webb-Hehn May 27, 2019October 20, 2022
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A letter to Black mamas

by Courtney Sebring and Aaron Bryant May 13, 2019November 13, 2023
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Mother's Day at the Cemetery

by Adina Solomon May 6, 2019October 1, 2020
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In Photos: Everyday La Frontera

by Alonso Castillo March 25, 2019September 27, 2023
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On archiving and honoring Virginia's long gay histories

by Tiffany Stevens March 18, 2019October 1, 2020
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In Photos: Battle on the Bayou

by Taliesin Gilkes-Bower March 11, 2019October 1, 2020
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Hell and high water: How flooding and buyouts threaten Black history

by Laura Thompson March 11, 2019October 27, 2020
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A reason for the Tar Heel State to strike: wage theft in North Carolina's food industry

by Tina Tru March 4, 2019October 1, 2020
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Choose Wisely

by Regina N. Bradley February 25, 2019October 1, 2020
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Hidden figures: How black women preachers spoke truth to power

by Kenyatta R. Gilbert February 9, 2019April 7, 2021
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That's not actually true

by Kiese Laymon February 4, 2019October 1, 2020
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Kicking up dust: Arts, race, and place converge in Scalawag's pilot artist-in-residence program

by Alysia Nicole Harris January 21, 2019October 1, 2020
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Life without parole is 'silent execution'

by Lyle C. May December 31, 2018November 12, 2020
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Echoes from the canyon: One family's cantina in small town Texas

by Gabriel Daniel Solis December 24, 2018October 1, 2020
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To my thirteen-year-old son

by LaToya Faulk December 24, 2018October 1, 2020
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Failure was what I needed most

by Diana Clarke December 10, 2018October 1, 2020
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Under the cover of darkness

by A.D. Carson November 26, 2018October 1, 2020
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Why I don't want to become white

by Tonnie Marin November 19, 2018September 27, 2023
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South Padre Island: A crash course in fatherhood and patriarchy

by Michael Dowdy November 12, 2018November 14, 2023
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Measures meant to make North Carolina prisons safer are doing the opposite

by Lyle C. May October 29, 2018October 1, 2020
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In photos: Vine City through a lens

by C. Rose Smith October 15, 2018October 1, 2020
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The Water Next Time?

by Danielle Purifoy October 10, 2018October 1, 2020
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I know the culture that produced Kavanaugh: tradition and violence at D.C. prep schools

by Alysia Nicole Harris October 8, 2018November 13, 2023
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Southern Floods: a regional look

by Matt Whitt October 1, 2018October 4, 2021

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