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F*ck The Fourth: A Scalawag Reading List
As an abolitionist publication in solidarity with Black, Indigenous, queer, and all oppressed people of the world who have for generations suffered under the boot of US Empire we say, Fuck the Fourth of July.
How the People's Cup in Atlanta Defied a Damaging Lineage
As the eyes of the sports world return to Atlanta this summer, conditions are once again ripe for the event to fuel more displacement, repression, and profiteering. Once again, the powerful will fight to use sports as a vehicle for the worst compulsions of late-stage capitalism – albeit fully necessary and wholly inevitable as strategy…
Letters from the Free City of Maroon
Three months ago, when the Education Debt Recovery officers came for me — apparently my college loans had been sold to a collection agency that operates child labor camps — I ran. Not just away from something, but toward something. Toward here, Maroon.
The Black Census Project
Again and again, Black communities treated democracy not as a gift to be gratefully received, but as a system that could and must be made to work as advertised.
Houston Birth Workers Respond to the Black Maternal Health Crisis
Panelists emphasized the need to decrease our dependency on carceral systems and solutions like the family policing system, which is also destroying the ability for Black people and Black birthgivers to live lives free of surveillance—which has been masked as a way to achieve "safety"—and violence, as it is rooted in white supremacy and racism.…
Let Us Explain: Gerrymandering
The Republicans have leaned into good ole fashioned voter repression, propaganda, Black disenfranchisement, carcerality, and state terror to maintain its stronghold. This is the Southern strategy, a tactic that has served white supremacist, right-wing agendas since the crushing of Radical Reconstruction in the 19th century.