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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.

Forever New Orleans tourism campaign advertisements. Illustrations by Keysha Rivera.
Posted inRACE & PLACE

Disaster capitalism, climate change, and the campaign to sell Black New Orleans

by Nicole Young May 31, 2023September 27, 2023
Tina Turner performs onstage at the United Center, October 1, 2000. (Photo by Paul Natkin/Getty Images) How Tina Turner's abuse and trauma remains a hip-hop trope.
Posted inARTS & SOUL

How Tina Turner's trauma remains a hip-hop trope—and why we need to abolish it

by Justin A. Davis May 25, 2023November 13, 2023
Victim or survivor? The language of patriarchal violence. Assigning language of victimhood or survival to those who have experienced gender violence is dehumanizing—not empowering.
Posted inRACE & PLACE

Who said we all survived?

by Breya M. Johnson May 25, 2023May 24, 2023
Posted inRACE & PLACE

My heart is wrapped in concertina wire

by K.C. Johnson May 24, 2023November 13, 2023
Pack City Hall: Rev. Keyanna Jones speaks while community members attend the city council meeting to protest against the controversial "Cop City" project, inside the city hall in Atlanta on May 15, 2023. REUTERS/Megan Varner.
Posted inSOUTHERN POLITICS

Out Loud on the Gate City Front

by Tea Troutman and Da'Shaun Harrison May 22, 2023May 22, 2023
An artistic interpretation of slaves jumping from a burning ship. Leftist organizing in the Black Radical Tradition.
Posted inRACE & PLACE

How to Build the End of the World

by Miliaku Nwabueze May 5, 2023May 5, 2023
A storybook illustration of a Black mother playing soccer with her Black son in the park.
Posted inRACE & PLACE

'Please Keep Playing.' An open letter to my son, Remix

by Ariana Brazier May 5, 2023November 13, 2023
Reverend Keyanna Jones
Posted inSOUTHERN POLITICS

To Save the Soul of Weelaunee

by Zoey Laird May 4, 2023May 3, 2023
Posted inRACE & PLACE

The Taking of Peachtree-Pine and the Dawning of Cop City

by Ariana Brazier May 3, 2023November 14, 2023
Posted inRACE & PLACE

31 Days in Dekalb County Hell

by Priscilla Grim May 2, 2023May 2, 2023
Posted inRACE & PLACE

Making State Enemies

by Julian Rose May 2, 2023May 2, 2023
Posted inSOUTHERN POLITICS

This is the Atlanta Way: A Primer on Cop City

by Micah Herskind May 1, 2023May 2, 2023
Posted inRACE & PLACE

Forever, I Love(d) Atlanta

by Tea Troutman May 1, 2023May 2, 2023
Posted inRACE & PLACE

The Captive Maternal is a function, not an identity marker

by Joy James April 28, 2023November 21, 2023
How Atlanta’s tradition of compromise betrays Black revolutionary violence: a critique of Black Political Action and the bargain of freedom. A critique of the state's appropriation of John Lewis' legacy to quell the radical demands for Black Power at its heart.
Posted inRACE & PLACE

What's Next for the Captive Maternal, Part II: Notes on a Rebel(lion) without a Cause

by Tea Troutman April 27, 2023November 21, 2023
How Atlanta’s tradition of compromise betrays Black revolutionary violence: a critique of Black Political Action and the bargain of freedom. A critique of the state's appropriation of John Lewis' legacy to quell the radical demands for Black Power at its heart.
Posted inRACE & PLACE

What's Next for the Captive Maternal: Notes on a Rebel(lion) without a Cause

by Tea Troutman April 26, 2023November 21, 2023
Is abolition a love language? On Black love as a form of resistance in the case of the first Black Bachelor Matt James. Revolutionary Love challenges the erotic logic of racial fetishism. An examination of romance and the politics of Black masculinity.
Posted inRACE & PLACE

Oshun's Suicide, Part II: Eros, Repetition, and Reprieve in Black Popular Culture 

by Jordan Mulkey April 21, 2023November 21, 2023
Unlike the NBC show, real life night court "is a place you can go to see that as a society we don't care about poor people. You’re in this microcosm of all the institutions that failed our clients."
Posted inRACE & PLACE

Night Court: New(ish) Sitcom, Same Copaganda

by Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg April 20, 2023November 21, 2023
Is abolition a love language? On Black love as a form of resistance in the case of the first Black Bachelor Matt James. Revolutionary Love challenges the erotic logic of racial fetishism. An examination of romance and the politics of Black masculinity.
Posted inRACE & PLACE

Oshun's Suicide: Eros, Repetition, and Reprieve in Black Popular Culture 

by Jordan Mulkey April 19, 2023November 21, 2023
Black Poetics and the Captive Maternal: Joy James asks poets to confront Black violence, using poetry as a means of survival and liberation.
Posted inRACE & PLACE

On the Tensions and (Im)Possibilities of Black Poetics: No Shame, No Devil

by Jon Jon Moore Palacios April 14, 2023November 21, 2023
Reproductive justice and the fight for bodily autonomy in the state's war on Black women's abortion “rights,” labor, bodies, and caretaking.
Posted inRACE & PLACE

Reflections on Reproductive Justice and the Captive Maternal

by Breya M. Johnson April 12, 2023November 21, 2023
Black educators' undervalued labor and the need for community support and Revolutionary Love against schooling-as-colonial-indoctrination.
Posted inRACE & PLACE

Radical Care Work in the Project of Schooling

by Anna Almore April 7, 2023November 21, 2023
From Caretaker to Rebel: The dialectical relationship between Black motherhood and captivity and the role of love as a tool of political will.
Posted inRACE & PLACE

Love and War: Dialectics and the Stages of the Captive Maternal

by Ziyana Lategan April 5, 2023November 21, 2023
Da'Shaun Harrison on death and revolution in the struggle for freedom. Dying is a part of struggle. Revolutionary Love is the catalyst.
Posted inRACE & PLACE

The Stakes of Revolution and the Death of Desire

by Da'Shaun Harrison March 31, 2023November 21, 2023
The Captive Maternal's Revolutionary Love. The transformative power of Black love in the face of oppression.
Posted inRACE & PLACE

At the impasse of Revolution and Revolutionary Love

by RAW Wilcox March 30, 2023November 21, 2023
Black Palestine Meets Black Atlanta. A statement of solidarity between Black and Palestinian communities across the diaspora.
Posted inRACE & PLACE

From Black Atlanta to Palestine: A statement of connection, solidarity, and survival

by Da'Shaun Harrison, Eva Dickerson, Osama and Bisan March 28, 2023November 21, 2023
We're Here: Florida's Queer Resistance. Exploring themes of LGBTQ+ activism and resilience in the face of adversity in drag.
Posted inRACE & PLACE

We're Queer, 'We're Here,' and We're Fighting Back

by Sezin Koehler March 23, 2023November 21, 2023
Posted inRACE & PLACE

Five Black Southerners you should know this Women's History Month

by Scalawag Editors March 21, 2023November 21, 2023
Posted inRACE & PLACE

These Muslim men are disrupting cycles of homelessness after prison

by Khawla Nakua March 14, 2023December 1, 2023
Posted inRACE & PLACE

Everything (Queer) Everywhere All At Once

by mónica teresa ortiz March 10, 2023December 1, 2023

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