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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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Reporter's Notebook: The Power of Proximity

by Ko Bragg February 12, 2021February 12, 2021
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How Black kids reclaimed the whitewashed world of 1920's children's literature

by Paige Gray February 8, 2021February 8, 2021
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The Color of Freedom: Reimagining portraits of the formerly enslaved

by Lee Hedgepeth February 5, 2021February 5, 2021
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Student journalists at an HBCU campus newspaper took on racist local media—and won

by Alexis Wray February 2, 2021November 16, 2022
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Pauli Murray: Black revolutionary

by Dolores Chandler January 29, 2021January 29, 2021
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Wake County promised to reconsider cops in schools. When they didn't, students took to the streets.

by Courtney Napier January 26, 2021February 2, 2021
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'When you come to school, you forfeit your rights'

by Courtney Napier January 19, 2021May 7, 2021
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A white supremacist coup succeeded in 1898 North Carolina, led by lying politicians and racist newspapers that amplified their lies

by Kathy Roberts Forde & Kristin Gustafson January 18, 2021September 14, 2021
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What the Capitol riots show us about the white illusion of civility

by Lovey Cooper and Katherine Webb-Hehn January 15, 2021January 15, 2021
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A forgotten coup in the American heartland echoes Trump

by Russell Cobb, The Conversation January 12, 2021January 12, 2021
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When God Calls My Name

by Ashley M. Jones January 11, 2021October 4, 2021
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The South's communication infrastructure can't withstand climate change

by Bailey Basham January 8, 2021March 16, 2021
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'A democracy we didn't achieve 50 years ago'

by Alice Driver January 5, 2021January 5, 2021
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Meet the Southern librarians fighting for racial justice and truth-telling

by Jason Christian December 29, 2020January 11, 2021
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In Louisiana's petrochemical corridor, COVID-19 spreads like cancer

by Drew Hawkins December 18, 2020December 18, 2020
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To shift the media narrative about the South, we have to rebuild it altogether

by Anoa Changa December 17, 2020December 17, 2020
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'If I asked my family to get rid of a bumper sticker, they would tell me to quit my job.'

by Iliana Hagenah December 17, 2020December 17, 2020
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I ran from my church after Trayvon Martin's murder—but not from my religion

by Courtney Napier December 17, 2020December 18, 2020
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The media's extractive telling of Appalachia

by R. Garringer December 15, 2020January 5, 2021
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Safety looks like full bellies in a pandemic

by Courtney Napier November 30, 2020November 30, 2020
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A Native Crew asks: 'Whose land are you skating on?'

by Justin Garcia November 24, 2020November 24, 2020
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Southern Sustenance

by Scalawag Editors November 20, 2020April 16, 2021
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This Durham trio wants you to pay Black farmers

by Kyesha Jennings November 16, 2020November 17, 2020
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After two devastating hurricanes, southwest Louisiana worries the rest of the country has already moved on

by Xander Peters November 9, 2020August 31, 2021
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Black Power in the South: How to keep supporting the movement

by Scalawag Team and Scalawag Editors November 6, 2020April 20, 2021
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'I wanted to wear a purple ball gown with a crimson silk cape'

by Cynthia R. Greenlee November 3, 2020November 3, 2020
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North Carolina's Racial Justice Act can remove prisoners from death row. But is life without parole actual justice?

by Lyle C. May October 26, 2020
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Doctor who performed hysterectomies on ICE detainees 'operated by a different set of rules' in rural Georgia

by Tina Vasquez, Prism October 19, 2020January 5, 2021
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Growing pains

by Adjoa D. Danso October 16, 2020October 16, 2020
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'Visionary and Pragmatic'—A Black Feminist Guide to Electoral Politics

by Danielle Purifoy October 6, 2020October 6, 2021

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