Editorial Archives – Scalawag

Pack City Hall: Rev. Keyanna Jones speaks while community members attend the city council meeting to protest against the controversial "Cop City" project, inside the city hall in Atlanta on May 15, 2023. REUTERS/Megan Varner.

SOUTHERN POLITICS

Out Loud on the Gate City Front

by Tea Troutman and Da'Shaun Harrison May 22, 2023May 22, 2023

Legacy media and tech titans have been instrumental in promoting and protecting Atlanta's Cop City project. Pack City Hall is just one example of the power of alternative media and grassroots organizers mobilizing to challenge the state narrative.

GSU Cop City student demands: Protesters gathered outside of the Georgia State Capitol in Atlanta in protest of Cop City as the clear cutting of trees began on March 31, 2023. REUTERS/Cheney Orr.

SOUTHERN POLITICS

Georgia State students demand the University denounce Cop City, end carceral investments

by GSU Student Coalition Against Policing & Militarism May 19, 2023May 26, 2023

Forever, I Love(d) Atlanta

by Tea Troutman May 1, 2023May 2, 2023

Five Black Southerners you should know this Women's History Month

by Scalawag Editors March 21, 2023March 21, 2023

SOUTHERN POLITICS

An open letter to Spelman College: Denounce Cop City Now

by Eva Dickerson and Spelman Alumni March 7, 2023April 28, 2023

SCALAWAG UPDATES

Scalawag's top stories of 2022

by Lovey Cooper and Scalawag Editors December 27, 2022December 16, 2022

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

by Erica Hensley August 3, 2022August 3, 2022

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Media coverage of abortion is under attack

by Ashton Lattimore June 28, 2022June 30, 2022

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Read, Watch, Listen, Do: An Abolitionist Media Guide

by Scalawag Editors June 23, 2022June 26, 2022

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Four headline mistakes newsrooms need to abolish

by Scalawag Team June 23, 2022April 28, 2023

Abolition, popular culture, and justice: introducing 'pop justice'

by Ko Bragg June 2, 2022September 22, 2022

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Read, Watch, Listen, Do: Black History Month

by Scalawag Editors February 4, 2022February 4, 2022

Breaking Through COVID: What data can't tell about the South's vaccine rates

by Scalawag Editors and Scalawag Team September 9, 2021September 21, 2021

Soul City: A Black dream killed just as it was coming true

by Danielle Purifoy July 27, 2021July 29, 2021

Welcome to Abolition Week

by Scalawag Team and Scalawag Editors June 21, 2021June 23, 2021

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Ending white supremacist violence will take all of us

by Cierra Hinton March 19, 2021March 19, 2021

SOUTHERN POLITICS

What the Capitol riots show us about the white illusion of civility

by Lovey Cooper and Katherine Webb-Hehn January 15, 2021January 15, 2021

SCALAWAG UPDATES

How our identities shaped our 2020 election coverage

by Lovey Cooper December 17, 2020December 17, 2020

SOUTHERN POLITICS

To shift the media narrative about the South, we have to rebuild it altogether

by Anoa Changa December 17, 2020December 17, 2020

SOUTHERN POLITICS

'If I asked my family to get rid of a bumper sticker, they would tell me to quit my job.'

by Iliana Hagenah December 17, 2020December 17, 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

The media's extractive telling of Appalachia

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

Exits from solitude—Poems we need right now

by Alysia Nicole Harris November 27, 2020December 3, 2020

SOUTHERN POLITICS

The new-new and old-new of 'unprecedented' times

by Zaina Alsous and Scalawag Editors October 30, 2020April 16, 2021

SCALAWAG UPDATES

Introducing Abolition Week

by Scalawag Team and Scalawag Editors August 17, 2020March 15, 2022

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Why we've decided to end our print magazine—and what we're reimagining instead

by Cierra Hinton July 7, 2020September 16, 2020

Modern abolition and the lasting truth of change

by Scalawag Editors June 18, 2020April 16, 2021

SOUTHERN POLITICS

Op-ed: Stay-at-home policy isn't effective without economic security and education

by Quran Karriem, Quisha Mallette, & Lewis Wallace March 27, 2020September 16, 2020

SOUTHERN POLITICS

North Carolina's hog industry could turn a corner—for better or worse

by Ryke Longest February 28, 2020September 16, 2020

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by Danielle Purifoy January 22, 2020October 1, 2020