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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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In pandemic times, radical imagination matters more than ever.

by Lewis Raven Wallace March 30, 2020February 10, 2021
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How Louisiana's oil and gas industry uses prison labor

by Carly Berlin March 24, 2020September 27, 2023
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Black horse culture and living in pleasure: in conversation with Wild Talk's avry jxn

by Amber Officer-Narvasa March 23, 2020September 27, 2023
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Social justice in a time of social distancing

by Kenneth Bailey & Lori Lobenstine March 13, 2020October 1, 2020
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Who was Oliver Harvey?

by Alicia Sun and Isabella Arbelaez February 24, 2020November 13, 2023
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12 Haikus on gentrification: Bull City edition

by Alysia Nicole Harris February 19, 2020September 27, 2023
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A baffled Southerner at the Iowa caucuses

by Tracee M. Saunders February 18, 2020October 1, 2020
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On Blackness and bad weather

by Ishmael Bishop February 17, 2020September 27, 2023
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Gulf South communities say climate justice requires new economic systems

by Emily Carmichael February 11, 2020September 27, 2023
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Losing Ground

by Alejandra Rosa February 10, 2020November 13, 2023
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Real museums of Memphis

by Zandria Felice Robinson February 5, 2020September 27, 2023
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Slave rebellion replaces Confederate reenactments. Watch now.

by Tricia Towey January 29, 2020October 1, 2020
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The Queer South: Where the past is not past, and the future is now

by Minnie Bruce Pratt January 27, 2020November 21, 2023
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1619-2019

by Danielle Purifoy January 22, 2020October 1, 2020
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During Civil Rights Era, Native American Communities in the South Armed Themselves Against the Klan

by Malinda Maynor Lowery January 20, 2020September 27, 2023
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Mold, foundation cracks, sinking houses: How a Florida Habitat for Humanity neighborhood fell apart

by Imani J. Jackson January 15, 2020September 27, 2023
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Food, power, and place in Northwest Arkansas

by Olivia Paschal January 6, 2020September 27, 2023
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Our Toni

by W.J. Lofton December 11, 2019October 1, 2020
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Nuclear waste in Paducah, Kentucky poses extra threat to region facing historic flooding

by Austyn Gaffney December 4, 2019September 27, 2023
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Room to Hold Grief and Gratitude

by Scalawag Editors November 25, 2019September 27, 2023
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Talking Race, with Rules: Q&A with Ijeoma Oluo

by Ariel Felton November 11, 2019October 1, 2020
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Prison officials cut off higher education for people on North Carolina's Death Row

by Lyle C. May October 28, 2019November 13, 2023
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What Petrocaribe can teach the Green New Deal

by Claire Ravenscroft October 7, 2019September 27, 2023
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For 30 years, Georgia and Florida have been fighting over water

by Haisten Willis September 30, 2019September 27, 2023
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'Can You Imagine People Ignoring All This If We Were White?'

by Katherine Webb-Hehn September 30, 2019November 2, 2020
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A Black kingdom in postbellum Appalachia

by Danielle Dulken September 9, 2019October 1, 2020
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In Photos: Black August in the Park

by Dare Kumolu-Johnson and Danielle Purifoy August 19, 2019October 1, 2020
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Social Struggle Is a Way of Life: An Interview with Albert Woodfox

by Zaina Alsous August 19, 2019November 16, 2022
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The Departed and Dismissed of Richmond

by Samantha Willis August 5, 2019November 14, 2023
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A Country Queers Dispatch

by R. Garringer July 29, 2019September 27, 2023

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