Essay Archives – Scalawag

in Grief

by Da'Shaun Harrison May 5, 2022May 5, 2022

For black folks in an antiblack world, it's impossible to ever truly heal from intergenerational trauma, Da'Shaun Harrison writes.

Scalawag Updates

Anita Hill: Ketanji Brown Jackson's nomination to the Supreme Court signals historic change

by Anita Hill February 28, 2022February 28, 2022

Contraband Books: What Texas prisons have against Michelle Alexander, Frederick Douglass, and Alice Walker

by Julie Poole September 28, 2021September 28, 2021

You're swamped? Join the club.

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

The old devil and the new details

by Mab Segrest March 29, 2021April 29, 2021

White tears will never be the solution

by Matt Hartman March 19, 2021April 1, 2021

'T-Pain was important because he was ours'

by Israel Daramola March 8, 2021March 8, 2021

This is damn sure not our grandparents' rhythm and blues

by Marcus K. Dowling February 16, 2021February 16, 2021

Pauli Murray: Black revolutionary

by Dolores Chandler January 29, 2021January 29, 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

It's time we abolish the Fourth Estate

by Cierra Hinton January 15, 2021

When God Calls My Name

by Ashley M. Jones January 11, 2021October 4, 2021

The media's extractive telling of Appalachia

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

'I wanted to wear a purple ball gown with a crimson silk cape'

by Cynthia R. Greenlee November 3, 2020November 3, 2020

Southern Politics

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

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

Sweet (and sticky) redemption

by Maurice Bailey & Nik Heynen September 29, 2020October 1, 2020

'I hate that thug music.' How 'progressive' music outlets fuel false arrests in the trap scene

by Nicholas Vila Byers August 10, 2020September 16, 2020

White food media and the commodification of resistance

by Tunde Wey July 13, 2020February 26, 2021

Southern Politics

Free the press in prisons, too

by Lyle C. May June 15, 2020September 16, 2020

Southern Politics

Memorial Day and weaponizing the American flag

by Jedediah Purdy May 25, 2020December 3, 2020

Southern Politics

Dear national media, Southerners on unemployment aren't living high on the hog

by Katie Myers May 22, 2020September 16, 2020

In pandemic times, radical imagination matters more than ever.

by Lewis Raven Wallace March 30, 2020February 10, 2021

Southern Politics

This election season, Florida's people's assemblies focus on building a true democracy

by Eli Day March 17, 2020September 16, 2020

A baffled Southerner at the Iowa caucuses

by Tracee M. Saunders February 18, 2020October 1, 2020

Southern Politics

A parachute-reporter's 10-step cheat sheet for covering the South

by Katherine Webb-Hehn January 6, 2020May 5, 2021

In Photos: On the visibility of Black (w)holes

by Derrick Beasley December 9, 2019August 29, 2021

To Be Somebody: The Radical Southern Labor Film Tradition

by Madeleine Seidel August 5, 2019September 16, 2020

Why North Carolina keeps many parole-eligible prisoners behind bars

by Lyle C. May July 8, 2019October 1, 2020

"Brooklynization" my ass

by Katherine Webb-Hehn May 27, 2019October 1, 2020

Southern Politics

The South is Everywhere

by Danielle Purifoy March 18, 2019September 16, 2020