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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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Two days before a scheduled execution

by Leroy E. Mann and Iris Gottlieb October 19, 2016June 23, 2021
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Review: Class war and the Confederacy in "Free State of Jones"

by Cedric Johnson October 6, 2016October 1, 2020
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What else matters if artificial intelligence is going to kill us all?

by Jesse Williams October 4, 2016October 1, 2020
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The news comes differently to me

by Robert L. Reece September 23, 2016October 1, 2020
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A dispatch from the streets of Charlotte

by Danielle Purifoy September 22, 2016October 1, 2020
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Video: Meet Brigido, an undocumented farmworker trying to support his family

by William Johnston-Carter September 20, 2016October 1, 2020
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A love letter to West Virginia two months after the flood

by R. Garringer September 5, 2016October 1, 2020
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After the floods, here are the voices of survival and solidarity in Louisiana

by Claire Bangser August 25, 2016October 1, 2020
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Gerrymandering is teaching high schoolers not to trust their government

by Tyler Holbrook June 24, 2016October 1, 2020
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In photos: solidarity with Orlando in Atlanta

by Camille Pendley June 17, 2016October 1, 2020
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On being half-Asian in the Mississippi Delta

by Michael Copperman June 8, 2016October 1, 2020
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Loving thy neighbor in North Carolina

by Sarah Gibson May 10, 2016October 1, 2020
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On being Southern and trying not to hate it

by Paula Garrett April 26, 2016October 1, 2020
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Leonardo Galván, farmer-advocate

by Christina Cooke April 14, 2016October 27, 2020
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Why I believe that we will win

by Jen Ansley April 7, 2016October 1, 2020
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Before I let go: on Houston, mental illness, and family

by Brian Foster March 22, 2016December 3, 2020
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Jesus, Aunt Mary, and me

by Tom Gogola March 8, 2016October 1, 2020
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Covering the Chapel Hill shooting as a Muslim journalist

by Reema Khrais March 3, 2016October 1, 2020
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Race, rubella, and the long road to abortion reform

by Cynthia R. Greenlee February 18, 2016October 27, 2020
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By the numbers: College football royalties

by Robert L. Reece and Jesse Williams February 3, 2016October 27, 2020
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"The White man's water"

by Robert L. Reece January 26, 2016October 1, 2020
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Going home? Scenes from Lowndes County

by Danielle Purifoy November 24, 2015October 1, 2020
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Why we need to remember our veterans in our politics

by Jesse Williams November 12, 2015October 1, 2020
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First days back

by Hank Cherry November 5, 2015October 1, 2020
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Keeping North Carolina's Haw River whole

by Cheney Gardner September 23, 2015October 27, 2020
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Marshland: Mythmaking in the Georgia Tidewater

by Sarah Bufkin September 16, 2015December 3, 2020
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The water will never not be here

by Lisa O'Neill September 3, 2015October 1, 2020
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To stay in the loving arms of our mountains

by R. Garringer July 29, 2015October 4, 2021
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By the Numbers: State of the child

by Sarah Bufkin July 22, 2015October 27, 2020

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