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

by Jordan Gass-Pooré June 20, 2022November 16, 2022
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I was on The First 48. Your true-crime obsession is based on lies.

by Demetrius Buckley June 20, 2022November 16, 2022
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'Young people need power.' Southern students on safety, accountability, and what they need from adults

by Rainesford Stauffer June 7, 2022August 16, 2022
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Abolition, popular culture, and justice: introducing 'pop justice'

by Ko Bragg June 2, 2022September 22, 2022
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Mildred's Mississippi: 'Roll of Thunder' as a love letter home

by Adria R. Walker May 24, 2022May 23, 2022
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Incarcerated Muslims in Florida celebrated Eid with limited accommodations

by Anthony Cobb and Khawla Nakua May 2, 2022May 4, 2022
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Treva Lindsay and Melissa Harris-Perry on misogynoir, poverty, and violence

by Courtney Napier April 25, 2022April 25, 2022
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'Left to hold my grief alone.' Grieving platonic love in a culture of romantic domination.

by Sherronda J. Brown April 7, 2022May 3, 2023
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Bilingual in sarcasm y solidaridad

by Alex Temblador March 29, 2022March 29, 2022
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How Louisville photographers are keeping Breonna Taylor in focus

by Anna Blake March 22, 2022November 16, 2022
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A queer and in-color geography: From Mumbai to West Virginia

by Anjali Enjeti March 3, 2022March 4, 2022
Incoming students at Morehouse, a Historically Black college in Atlanta, Georgia, walk past a mural depicting Black history on their way to New Student Orientation 2021. Credit: Photo via Morehouse College on Facebook.
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'Who keeps us safe?' An HBCU roundtable on violence and accountability

by Ko Bragg, Adam Harris, Da'Shaun Harrison, Noella Williams and Alexis Wray February 25, 2022March 9, 2022
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Life and Death in Strawberry Land

by Autumn Fourkiller February 14, 2022March 15, 2022
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Songs for a South underwater

by Sergio Lopez February 11, 2022November 16, 2022
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Exploring the solar system through Indigenous winter solstice traditions

by Rosalyn R. LaPier, The Conversation December 20, 2021December 16, 2021
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Salt, Soil, & Supper: Amending Florida's constitution to save its waterways

by Xander Peters December 8, 2021December 8, 2021
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New Orleans has a trash problem. Thanks to climate change, your city probably will, too.

by Drew Hawkins December 3, 2021December 3, 2021
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Salt, Soil, & Supper: New Orleans, plural

by Xander Peters December 1, 2021December 1, 2021
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The longest-running Indigenous radio show in Texas

by Pauly Denetclaw, Texas Observer October 19, 2021October 18, 2021
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Requiem for the longleaf pine

by Xander Peters October 6, 2021October 6, 2021
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Mississippi's childhood lead exposure interventions don't do enough for kids

by Erica Hensley October 5, 2021March 9, 2022
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In photos: Afropunk 2021 is a queer, Black homecoming

by Noella Williams October 1, 2021October 6, 2021
The Reverend Kenneth B. Thomas Sr., pastor of Bethesda Worship and Healing Center in Jonesboro, Arkansas, hugs Cory Brigham after ordaining him into the ministry during Sunday service on August 15, 2021. All photos by Terrance Armstard for The Guardian.
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'We've come this far by faith:' Vaccines, religion, and community in Arkansas

by Sandra L. Combs and Terrance Armstard September 21, 2021September 21, 2021
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You're swamped? Join the club.

by Ko Bragg and Virginia Walcott September 17, 2021September 22, 2021
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Breaking Through COVID: What data can't tell about the South's vaccine rates

by Scalawag Editors and Scalawag Team September 9, 2021September 21, 2021
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'We have to evaluate the motives of health care institutions'

by Alysia Nicole Harris September 9, 2021September 21, 2021
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Salt, Soil, & Supper: The social contracts of municipal water systems

by Xander Peters August 18, 2021August 18, 2021
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Salt, Soil, & Supper: Uprooting 'private landowner syndrome'

by Xander Peters August 11, 2021August 13, 2021
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'A lifetime of damage' on a creosote plume in Houston's Fifth Ward

by Xander Peters August 3, 2021August 2, 2021
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Soul City: A Black dream killed just as it was coming true

by Danielle Purifoy July 27, 2021July 29, 2021

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