Community Archives – Scalawag

White reporters: It's time to pop your parachute and share your byline

by Erica Hensley August 3, 2022August 3, 2022

Erica Hensley reflects on why more white journalists should also shift away from using people like farmer Teresa Springs solely as sources—and democratize the byline instead.

Scalawag Updates

The Grief You Give: A guide for what to say in the wake of loss

by Scalawag Editors and Scalawag Community July 19, 2022July 19, 2022

'Left to hold my grief alone.' Grieving platonic love in a culture of romantic domination.

by Sherronda J. Brown April 7, 2022April 7, 2022

The longest-running Indigenous radio show in Texas

by Pauly Denetclaw, Texas Observer October 19, 2021October 18, 2021

You're swamped? Join the club.

by Ko Bragg and Virginia Walcott September 17, 2021September 22, 2021

Scalawag Updates

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

by Scalawag Team August 30, 2021September 2, 2021

HBCUs are keeping the rest of the South safe

by Alexis Wray April 27, 2021May 20, 2021

Southern Politics

He thought he could be a 'good' cop. Now, he's working to end policing as we know it.

by Gabbriel Schivone March 23, 2021March 23, 2021

We who believe in freedom cannot rest until it comes

by Anoa Changa February 24, 2021March 3, 2021

The South's communication infrastructure can't withstand climate change

by Bailey Basham January 8, 2021March 16, 2021

The media's extractive telling of Appalachia

by R. Garringer December 15, 2020January 5, 2021

8 Dallas artists and a Japanese printer

by Alex Temblador December 4, 2020December 4, 2020

Southern Politics

Field Notes from the ground in Tennessee—Before, during, and after the election

by Iliana Hagenah November 10, 2020

Southern Politics

Celebrity chefs cook up joy at the polls in the South

by Courtney Napier November 2, 2020November 2, 2020

Organizers in the Rio Grande Valley worked this summer to ensure people had access to food in neighborhoods with high rates of food insecurity. All photos by Ángela García.

Southern Politics

Love to the RGV from a new generation of activists

by Deana Ayers October 12, 2020October 12, 2020

Scalawag Updates, Southern Politics

Neighbors helping neighbors: a list of coronavirus mutual aid efforts in the South

by Carly Berlin March 20, 2020October 1, 2020

Social justice in a time of social distancing

by Kenneth Bailey & Lori Lobenstine March 13, 2020October 1, 2020

Southern Politics

Community takes down neo-Nazis and slumlords in rural Tennessee

by Katie Myers March 9, 2020September 16, 2020

Atlanta's ArtsXchange revives "art for the people's sake"

by Angela Oliver January 7, 2019December 3, 2020

Southern Politics

The fishkill on Georgia's Ogeechee River

by Jim Abbot May 24, 2018September 16, 2020

Southern Politics

Fighting to save a gentrifying East Nashville

by Grace Tatter May 4, 2018September 16, 2020

Shadow of the Cross

by Andrew Paul October 25, 2017September 16, 2020

Photo essay: There is love in Louisville

by David Flores and Ellen Hagan July 20, 2017December 3, 2020

I want the world to know about this place

by Kari Mugo July 9, 2017October 1, 2020

Southern Politics

A Georgia town's battle against coal ash

by Georgina Gustin June 28, 2017September 16, 2020

Southern Politics

Atlanta and the politics of the losing South

by Robert Greene June 18, 2017September 16, 2020

The curious loss of a friendly stranger

by Katy Reckdahl May 6, 2017October 1, 2020

Southern Politics

Your neighborhood midwife, Afua Hassan

by William Black April 7, 2017September 16, 2020

Southern Politics

What kind of landscapes should we build in the South?

by Kofi Boone March 23, 2017September 16, 2020

Southern Politics

How do you beat plantation power?

by Danielle Purifoy March 15, 2017September 16, 2020