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No teacher? Call a cop, says Oklahoma governor

by Destinee Adams February 9, 2022February 9, 2022
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Roe is down. Keep supporting these abortion funds.

by Scalawag Team January 22, 2022June 24, 2022
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When reparations grow from the grassroots

by Ray Levy Uyeda, YES! Magazine January 11, 2022January 10, 2022
Scalawag's 2021 Sick & Shut In List
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Scalawag's 2021 Sick & Shut In List

by Scalawag Team and Scalawag Editors December 29, 2021December 29, 2021
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Without paid leave, the South's COVID school policies cause a terrible trickle down for families

by Rainesford Stauffer November 18, 2021March 9, 2022
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Scenes from the picket line: Kellogg workers on why they went on strike for two months straight

by Jason Kerzinski November 5, 2021December 3, 2021
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Florida's legacy of slow-rolling parole keeps thousands of people behind bars—some, for decades past their eligibility date

by Justin Garcia October 28, 2021March 9, 2022
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New Urbanism sells faux sustainability as a luxury on Florida's 30A

by Ashira Morris October 13, 2021September 27, 2023
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Mississippi's childhood lead exposure interventions don't do enough for kids

by Erica Hensley October 5, 2021March 9, 2022
Volunteers with Southern Solidarity's New York team pause for a photo while handing out supplies to the city's unhoused folks.
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Homelessness and eviction have always been public health crises. The pandemic made them even more deadly.

by Sarah Glen September 13, 2021September 21, 2021
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Overdose deaths are reaching record highs in the South as COVID vaccines take priority

by Lovey Cooper September 10, 2021September 21, 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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A principal leaves his beloved school after an intense year

by Katy Reckdahl and The Hechinger Report August 24, 2021March 9, 2022
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In Florida, protesting can cost you your right to vote

by Sierra Lyons August 11, 2021August 11, 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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The incalculable cost of cheap chicken—and the hidden industry that shoulders it

by Tina Vasquez July 20, 2021September 27, 2023
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Abolition made practical

by Alysia Nicole Harris July 6, 2021July 6, 2021
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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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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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How Durham, North Carolina, became the first US city to ban police exchanges with Israel

by Zaina Alsous and Sammy Hanf May 18, 2021May 18, 2021
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To the other 98%: Lessons from the nation's Black male educators

by Letrell Harris & Horace Ryans May 14, 2021May 14, 2021
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Meet the 5 women uprooting white beauty standards and white supremacy in West Virginia

by Crystal Good May 11, 2021May 12, 2021
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Bad medicine in Louisiana prisons

by Xander Adams May 5, 2021April 13, 2022
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The BAmazon Loss and the Road Ahead

by Joe DeManuelle-Hall, Labor Notes April 16, 2021April 16, 2021
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The Jewish South is Black, too

by Nic Yeager April 2, 2021April 2, 2021
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He thought he could be a 'good' cop. Now, he's working to end policing as we know it.

by Gabbriel Schivone March 23, 2021March 23, 2021
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In Arkansas, falling behind on rent could mean jail time

by Maya Miller & Ellis Simani, ProPublica; & Benjamin Hardy, Arkansas Nonprofit News Network March 22, 2021March 26, 2021
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Alabama taxpayers have paid $4 billion toward a policy that Governor Ivey refuses to bring home

by Katherine Webb-Hehn March 16, 2021March 29, 2021

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