Editorial Archives – Scalawag

Scalawag Updates

Scalawag's top stories of 2022

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

Amid the chaos that this year wrought, we here at Scalawag kept doing what we do best: Showcasing Southerners being their full selves, telling their own damn stories, and fiercely loving their people.

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

by Erica Hensley August 3, 2022August 3, 2022

Scalawag Updates

Media coverage of abortion is under attack

by Ashton Lattimore June 28, 2022June 30, 2022

Scalawag Updates

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

by Scalawag Editors June 23, 2022June 26, 2022

Scalawag Updates

Four headline mistakes newsrooms need to abolish

by Scalawag Team June 23, 2022June 27, 2022

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

by Ko Bragg June 2, 2022September 22, 2022

Scalawag Updates

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

Scalawag Updates

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

Scalawag Updates

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

1619-2019

by Danielle Purifoy January 22, 2020October 1, 2020

Room to Hold Grief and Gratitude

by Scalawag Editors November 25, 2019April 16, 2021

Labor and gift: the paradoxical power of the arts—our all-arts print issue

by Alysia Nicole Harris and Scalawag Editors July 15, 2019April 16, 2021

Green From Below

by Zaina Alsous June 24, 2019October 1, 2020

I know the culture that produced Kavanaugh: tradition and violence at D.C. prep schools

by Alysia Nicole Harris October 8, 2018November 16, 2022

Southern Politics

Civility Is Not Solidarity: An Editorial Call to Action

by Zaina Alsous June 28, 2018September 16, 2020