Community Archives – Scalawag

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.

Love to the RGV from a new generation of activists

by Deana Ayers October 12, 2020October 12, 2020

While the government dragged its feet this summer for Hurricane Hanna relief, young organizers launched mutual aid in the Rio Grande Valley to meet people's basic needs.

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

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, 2019September 16, 2020

The fishkill on Georgia's Ogeechee River

by Jim Abbot May 24, 2018September 16, 2020

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, 2017October 1, 2020

I want the world to know about this place

by Kari Mugo July 9, 2017October 1, 2020

A Georgia town's battle against coal ash

by Georgina Gustin June 28, 2017September 16, 2020

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

Your neighborhood midwife, Afua Hassan

by William Black April 7, 2017September 16, 2020

What kind of landscapes should we build in the South?

by Kofi Boone March 23, 2017September 16, 2020

How do you beat plantation power?

by Danielle Purifoy March 15, 2017September 16, 2020

Don't call the police on poverty

by Lamont Lilly February 21, 2017October 1, 2020

Princeville is worth fighting for

by Rachel Gorman October 28, 2016September 16, 2020

Drowned animals, runaway waste on North Carolina farms in Matthew's wake

by Christina Cooke October 24, 2016September 16, 2020

Who wins when festival season comes to Durham?

by Sammy Feldblum September 30, 2016September 16, 2020

After the floods, here are the voices of survival and solidarity in Louisiana

by Claire Bangser August 25, 2016October 1, 2020

Atlanta in (trans)formation

by Anna Simonton July 15, 2016September 16, 2020

The strange story of Sewanee, the KKK, and a Franklin County Gay/Straight Alliance

by Sarah Jones May 19, 2016September 16, 2020

45 years after the Supreme Court forced its schools to integrate, Charlotte continues to debate race, poverty, and education

by Adam Rhew April 20, 2016September 16, 2020

Why one of the nation's breadbaskets is also its unlikeliest food desert

by Rachel Gorman April 5, 2016September 16, 2020

Who tells Richmond's story?

by Amanda Lineberry March 17, 2016September 16, 2020

What's San Antonio trying to prove?

by Sol Weiner January 12, 2016September 16, 2020

"Hope you remember": Resilience and resistance in New Orleans

by Anna Simonton December 1, 2015September 16, 2020

First days back

by Hank Cherry November 5, 2015October 1, 2020

The strange true story of how a Memphis video rental store became the nation's most obstinate monument to cinema

by Eric J. Wallace October 29, 2015September 16, 2020