Blackness Archives – Scalawag

Recovery while Black in Appalachia

by Crystal Good February 26, 2021March 1, 2021

Racism leads to intergenerational trauma, and some Black folks turn to alcohol and substances to cope. Crystal Good shares her story of addiction and recovery while being Black in Appalachia, and how community, creativity, and trauma therapy redefined the narrative.

Review: One Night in Miami

by Khayla Deans February 23, 2021March 1, 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, 2021February 2, 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

The Mutual Musicians Foundation is fighting the gentrification of Jazz in Kansas City

by Zeb Larson December 8, 2020December 9, 2020

There Goes the Neighborhood: What really caused the decline of 18th & Vine

by Zeb Larson December 8, 2020December 9, 2020

Poetry from Jericho Brown, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, & Taylor Johnson

by Alysia Harris December 1, 2020December 3, 2020

In Photos: When we couldn't come home

by Philip Harris November 23, 2020November 23, 2020

This Durham trio wants you to pay Black farmers

by Kyesha Jennings November 16, 2020November 17, 2020

Why drill and trap are the soundtrack of this generation's protests

by Nicholas Vila Byers November 13, 2020November 13, 2020

'I wanted to wear a purple ball gown with a crimson silk cape'

by Cynthia R. Greenlee November 3, 2020November 3, 2020

Growing pains

by Adjoa D. Danso October 16, 2020October 16, 2020

When all hell breaks loose, North Carolina returns to the cypher

by Kyesha Jennings October 13, 2020October 13, 2020

'Visionary and Pragmatic'—A Black Feminist Guide to Electoral Politics

by Danielle Purifoy October 6, 2020October 6, 2020

This I Know For Sure: Remembrance and freedom in Jaki Shelton Green's The River Speaks of Thirst

by Alysia Harris August 12, 2020December 3, 2020

'I hate that thug music.' How 'progressive' music outlets fuel false arrests in the trap scene

by Nicholas Vila Byers August 10, 2020September 16, 2020

Justice for François—Haitian-Americans in the movement for Black Lives

by Marina Magloire July 6, 2020October 1, 2020

Liberation is a Long Haul: Lessons from Juneteenth

by Jakeya Caruthers June 22, 2020February 10, 2021

Modern abolition and the lasting truth of change

by Scalawag Team June 18, 2020December 3, 2020

Southern Politics

When Black voters matter as much as Black votes

by Courtney Napier June 12, 2020September 16, 2020

Black businesses disrupt unhealthy food system in Southeast Raleigh

by Courtney Napier June 5, 2020October 1, 2020