Blackness Archives – Scalawag

Soul City: A Black dream killed just as it was coming true

by Danielle Purifoy July 27, 2021July 29, 2021

Floyd McKissick Jr.'s dream is an example of how white supremacy and its twin, anti-Blackness, intervene in the most basic life processes.

In Review: 'Can these bones live?'

by W.J. Lofton July 23, 2021July 23, 2021

Salt, Soil, & Supper: This one's for the trees

by Xander Peters July 21, 2021July 21, 2021

For Black cowboys—from inner-city Philly to small-town Texas—horses and riding are a way of life

by Nick Lehr, The Conversation July 16, 2021

Akwaeke Emezi: 'A dead thing sentenced to life'

by Ko Bragg June 11, 2021June 11, 2021

Southern Politics

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, 2021July 21, 2021

To the other 98%: Lessons from the nation's Black male educators

by Letrell Harris & Horace Ryans May 14, 2021May 14, 2021

Southern Politics

Meet the 5 women uprooting white beauty standards and white supremacy in West Virginia

by Crystal Good May 11, 2021May 12, 2021

A Prophet Without Eyes: Pauli Murray's Moment

by Brenna M. Casey April 30, 2021April 30, 2021

HBCUs are keeping the rest of the South safe

by Alexis Wray April 27, 2021May 20, 2021

In the face of anti-trans bills, 'Mama Gloria' is a blessing

by Antonia Randolph April 23, 2021April 23, 2021

The fall and rise of North Carolina's first Black school

by Rupen Fofaria, EdNC.org April 13, 2021April 13, 2021

A New Crop: Portraits of Houston's Black urban farmers

by Lenard Smith, Jr. April 9, 2021April 9, 2021

Freedom wasn't given—it was seized

by Samantha Willis April 6, 2021April 7, 2021

Southern Politics

The Jewish South is Black, too

by Nic Yeager April 2, 2021April 2, 2021

White tears will never be the solution

by Matt Hartman March 19, 2021April 1, 2021

Consuming Blackness in 'progressive' West Virginia

by Crystal Good March 5, 2021

In Appalachia, the face of addiction is white—and so is the story of recovery

by Crystal Good February 26, 2021April 6, 2021

Review: One Night in Miami

by Khayla Deans February 23, 2021March 3, 2021

This is damn sure not our grandparents' rhythm and blues

by Marcus K. Dowling February 16, 2021February 16, 2021

Let Black Art Tell It

by Alysia Harris February 15, 2021February 15, 2021

The Color of Freedom: Reimagining portraits of the formerly enslaved

by Lee Hedgepeth February 5, 2021February 5, 2021

Southern Politics

Student journalists at an HBCU campus newspaper took on racist local media—and won

by Alexis Wray February 2, 2021March 23, 2021

Scalawag Updates

Essential Reading: Black History and Black Futures

by Scalawag Editors February 1, 2021February 1, 2021

Pauli Murray: Black revolutionary

by Dolores Chandler January 29, 2021January 29, 2021

Scalawag Updates

It's time we abolish the Fourth Estate

by Cierra Hinton January 15, 2021

Meet the Southern librarians fighting for racial justice and truth-telling

by Jason Christian December 29, 2020January 11, 2021

Behind the scenes in Black Appalachia

by Crystal Good December 23, 2020December 23, 2020

Southern Politics

I ran from my church after Trayvon Martin's murder—but not from my religion

by Courtney Napier December 17, 2020December 18, 2020

Before Charlie Parker, there was Lester Young

by Brian Major December 9, 2020December 9, 2020