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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.

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'Who would want their child to miss everything?'

by Ko Bragg and JS June 25, 2021November 13, 2023
Posted inARTS & SOUL

In Photos: Desde Adentro (From Within)

by ITAMA Youth June 24, 2021November 13, 2023
Posted inSOUTHERN POLITICS

Qualified Immunity: How 'ordinary police work' tramples civil rights

by Lyle C. May June 23, 2021October 18, 2021
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Two letters from North Carolina prisons make the same demands—45 years apart.

by Anne C. Willett & A.L. Harris June 22, 2021February 23, 2023
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Welcome to Abolition Week

by Scalawag Team and Scalawag Editors June 21, 2021June 23, 2021
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Salt, Soil, & Supper: The whole hog's history

by Xander Peters June 16, 2021September 27, 2023
Posted inARTS & SOUL

Akwaeke Emezi: 'A dead thing sentenced to life'

by Ko Bragg June 11, 2021August 9, 2021
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Prostitution was already illegal in Louisiana. Then Republicans crafted an even more damning law used to target trans sex workers.

by Matt Nadel June 1, 2021April 20, 2022
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In Alamance County, a battle for racial justice confronts a bloody past and an uncertain future

by Carli Brosseau, ProPublica May 28, 2021July 27, 2021
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Salt, Soil, & Supper: Food apartheid, continued

by Xander Peters May 26, 2021September 27, 2023
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Salt, Soil, & Supper: Call it what it is—Food apartheid

by Xander Peters May 19, 2021September 27, 2023
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To the other 98%: Lessons from the nation's Black male educators

by Letrell Harris & Horace Ryans May 14, 2021November 13, 2023
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Author Anjali Enjeti reckons with Asian American identity in white-dominant culture

by Deirdre Sugiuchi May 7, 2021May 7, 2021
Posted inARTS & SOUL

A Prophet Without Eyes: Pauli Murray's Moment

by Brenna M. Casey April 30, 2021October 6, 2021
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Salt, Soil, & Supper: Meet Ko Bragg, Scalawag's new Race & Place editor

by Xander Peters April 28, 2021September 27, 2023
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HBCUs are keeping the rest of the South safe

by Alexis Wray April 27, 2021November 13, 2023
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The fall and rise of North Carolina's first Black school

by Rupen Fofaria, EdNC.org April 13, 2021November 13, 2023
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A New Crop: Portraits of Houston's Black urban farmers

by Lenard Smith, Jr. April 9, 2021September 27, 2023
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The old devil and the new details

by Mab Segrest March 29, 2021April 29, 2021
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White tears will never be the solution

by Matt Hartman March 19, 2021April 1, 2021
Posted inRACE & PLACE

Consuming Blackness in 'progressive' West Virginia

by Crystal Good March 5, 2021
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'Pure America': Eugenics past and present

by Adam Willems March 2, 2021March 3, 2021
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Texas' oldest Black university was built on a former plantation. Its students still fight a legacy of voter suppression.

by Alexa Ura, The Texas Tribune March 1, 2021November 13, 2023
Posted inRACE & PLACE

In Appalachia, the face of addiction is white—and so is the story of recovery

by Crystal Good February 26, 2021April 6, 2021
Posted inRACE & PLACE

We who believe in freedom cannot rest until it comes

by Anoa Changa February 24, 2021March 3, 2021
Posted inRACE & PLACE

Rural Texans faced the same storm—with unique hardships

by Melissa B. Taboada & Sarah M. Vasquez, The Texas Tribune February 22, 2021September 27, 2023
Posted inRACE & PLACE

Reporter's Notebook: The Power of Proximity

by Ko Bragg February 12, 2021November 13, 2023
Posted inRACE & PLACE

How Black kids reclaimed the whitewashed world of 1920's children's literature

by Paige Gray February 8, 2021November 13, 2023
Posted inARTS & SOUL

The Color of Freedom: Reimagining portraits of the formerly enslaved

by Lee Hedgepeth February 5, 2021February 5, 2021
Posted inSOUTHERN POLITICS

Student journalists at an HBCU campus newspaper took on racist local media—and won

by Alexis Wray February 2, 2021November 13, 2023

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