Civil Rights Archives – Scalawag

'A democracy we didn't achieve 50 years ago'

by Alice Driver January 5, 2021January 5, 2021

In 2016, Mary King, once an organizer and photographer for SNCC, went to Mississippi to revisit the history that defined the true north of her life.

Southern Politics

The Last, the Least, and the Lost

by Courtney Napier and Anoa Changa December 3, 2020January 11, 2021

Forgotten protest icon Odetta Holmes lives on in modern Black Americana

by Chelsea Spear October 23, 2020February 10, 2021

Nikema Williams is expected to be the next congressperson for the Georgia 5th Congressional district. Photo courtesy of Nikema Williams for Congress.

Southern Politics

5 things to watch in Georgia's 5th Congressional District election as candidates try to further John Lewis' legacy

by Frances Katz September 18, 2020September 22, 2020

Liberation is a Long Haul: Lessons from Juneteenth

by Jakeya Caruthers June 22, 2020February 10, 2021

Reckoning with white supremacy: Five fundamentals for white folks

by Lovey Cooper June 1, 2020December 26, 2020

Who was Oliver Harvey?

by Alicia Sun and Isabella Arbelaez February 24, 2020February 3, 2021

Real museums of Memphis

by Zandria Felice Robinson February 5, 2020October 1, 2020

Southern Politics

Social Struggle Is a Way of Life: An Interview with Albert Woodfox

by Zaina Alsous August 19, 2019June 23, 2021

Mississippi's truth-telling new museum

by Ellen Ann Fentress December 22, 2017September 16, 2020

Southern Politics

Poverty, justice, and education in Roanoke, Virginia

by Mason Adams October 17, 2017September 16, 2020

Scenes in the lives of two Mississippi matriarchs

by Alysia Steele August 1, 2017October 1, 2020

Southern Politics

Here are the freedom songs of the Movement for Black Lives

by Willie Jamaal Wright February 9, 2017September 16, 2020

Freedom Schools try to teach the truth about race in America

by Jesse DeConto October 9, 2016September 16, 2020