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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

Let us pray that these villains change their ways in 2022 and put an end to the havoc they're wreaking across our beloved South.

Southern Politics

New Urbanism sells faux sustainability as a luxury on Florida's 30A

by Ashira Morris October 13, 2021November 16, 2022

Requiem for the longleaf pine

by Xander Peters October 6, 2021October 6, 2021

Scalawag Updates

Hurricane Ida: How to get and give help on the Gulf Coast

by Scalawag Team August 30, 2021September 2, 2021

Southern Politics

The BAmazon Loss and the Road Ahead

by Joe DeManuelle-Hall, Labor Notes April 16, 2021April 16, 2021

Southern Politics

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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The majority of Alabamians want Medicaid expansion

by Katherine Webb-Hehn March 15, 2021March 29, 2021

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Dissent in the Pentagon of the South

by Taylor Barnes December 11, 2020December 11, 2020

The first Black drag queen in North Alabama and other untold stories of the Queer South

by Sarah Prager November 17, 2020November 16, 2022

Scalawag Updates

Black Power in the South: How to keep supporting the movement

by Scalawag Team and Scalawag Editors November 6, 2020April 20, 2021

Southern Politics

What do we mean when we talk about voter suppression?

by Lovey Cooper September 24, 2020November 6, 2020

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'I'm Black. I'm a mom. I'm mad.'

by Lanier Isom September 21, 2020September 22, 2020

Jesus walks into a drag bar: Birmingham's alternative drag scene

by Haley Bosselman September 4, 2020September 16, 2020

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Birmingham increases police budget by $11.2M despite demands to defund: 'People literally cannot breathe, and it's not because of George Floyd'

by Katherine Webb-Hehn August 31, 2020January 21, 2021

Southern Politics

Alabama wrote the book on Black Lives Matter, but today's challenges to defund police have Freedom Fighters back at the drawing board

by Katherine Webb-Hehn August 14, 2020September 16, 2020

Southern Politics

John Lewis' legacy: Four Southern states are still battling for voter rights

by Neesha Powell-Ingabire August 3, 2020September 16, 2020

Scalawag Updates

(Past) Virtual event—Breathing While Black: Fighting environmental racism in the South

by Scalawag Team June 18, 2020October 9, 2020

The 'Slave Trail of Tears': recreation or reckoning?

by Sammy Feldblum May 11, 2020October 1, 2020

For Black North Birmingham residents fighting toxic pollution, staying home isn't safe

by Katherine Webb-Hehn April 20, 2020October 1, 2020

Southern Politics

A parachute-reporter's 10-step cheat sheet for covering the South

by Katherine Webb-Hehn January 6, 2020November 16, 2022

Southern Politics

Appalachia is transitioning from coal. Here's what the region could learn from Germany.

by Katherine Webb-Hehn October 16, 2019September 16, 2020

For 30 years, Georgia and Florida have been fighting over water

by Haisten Willis September 30, 2019October 27, 2020

'Can You Imagine People Ignoring All This If We Were White?'

by Katherine Webb-Hehn September 30, 2019November 2, 2020

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Residents of an Alabama superfund site say it's not their responsibility to be watchdogs

by Katherine Webb-Hehn September 2, 2019September 16, 2020

Toothless, cousin loving

by Katherine Webb-Hehn July 15, 2019December 3, 2020

Southern Politics

Standing in the government cheese line with my grandmother as a six-year-old

by Salaam Green June 24, 2019September 16, 2020

Southern Politics

Dangerous conditions may exist in this area

by Katherine Webb-Hehn June 24, 2019September 16, 2020

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Forever family: Lesbian foster parents on a journey to adopt in the Bible Belt

by Katherine Webb-Hehn December 17, 2018September 16, 2020

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Alabama may have solutions to the nation's Black maternal health crisis

by Katherine Webb-Hehn September 24, 2018September 16, 2020

Southern Politics

Midwifery makes a comeback in Alabama

by Katherine Webb-Hehn September 3, 2018September 16, 2020