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grief & other loves: National Poetry Month workshop series

by Scalawag Team March 16, 2023March 31, 2023

Poetry can be a practice of grief: messy, personal, reaching, revelatory. This National Poetry Month, Scalawag is taking 'grief and other loves' on the road.

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Grief and Love, Outside the Changes

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A Prophet Without Eyes: Pauli Murray's Moment

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The Triangle's first Black-owned vegan restaurant still doing business during COVID-19

by Giulia Heyward May 15, 2020September 16, 2020
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Who was Oliver Harvey?

by Alicia Sun and Isabella Arbelaez February 24, 2020February 3, 2021
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Curated Tolerance: the aesthetics of gentrification

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12 Haikus on gentrification: Bull City edition

by Alysia Nicole Harris February 19, 2020October 1, 2020
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How Southern organizers are leading the movement to end money bail

by Gabrielle Hernandez May 17, 2018September 16, 2020
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Durham activists rally to support those charged with felonies for pulling down a confederate statue

by Lauren Barber August 23, 2017September 16, 2020
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Don't call the police on poverty

by Lamont Lilly February 21, 2017October 1, 2020
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Who wins when festival season comes to Durham?

by Sammy Feldblum September 30, 2016September 16, 2020
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North Carolina prisoners are dying in custody

by Danielle Purifoy and Matt Whitt February 25, 2016July 2, 2021
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The mortician who kept a neighborhood's history alive

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