History Archives – Scalawag

The Captive Maternal is a function, not an identity marker

by Joy James April 28, 2023April 28, 2023

How Black caretakers navigate and negotiate their function in service, sacrifice, and struggle for liberation: Joy James on the Captive Maternal's journey through five stages of rebellion, resistance, and love.

Abolishing the Black Superhero Complex: From Black Panther to MLK

by Bria Massey March 2, 2023April 28, 2023

The White Lotus is supposed to be satire. Hawaiians deserve the last laugh.

by Mariah Rigg September 12, 2022September 16, 2022

Black elders saved this couple's Mississippi farm. Now they're harvesting ancestral techniques—and tomatoes

by Erica Hensley and Teresa Ervin-Springs August 3, 2022November 16, 2022

Out of the Shadows: The Queer Life of Artist Beauford Delaney

by Tyra A. Seals June 29, 2022November 16, 2022

What the history books won't tell you about abolition

by Gabrielle A. Perry June 24, 2022June 24, 2022

Songs for a South underwater

by Sergio Lopez February 11, 2022November 16, 2022

Scalawag Updates

Read, Watch, Listen, Do: Black History Month

by Scalawag Editors February 4, 2022February 4, 2022

Southern Politics

When reparations grow from the grassroots

by Ray Levy Uyeda, YES! Magazine January 11, 2022January 10, 2022

How radical feminist politics shaped one of ATL's most beloved neighborhoods

by Neesha Powell-Ingabire December 28, 2021January 19, 2022

Exploring the solar system through Indigenous winter solstice traditions

by Rosalyn R. LaPier, The Conversation December 20, 2021December 16, 2021

Salt, Soil, & Supper: New Orleans, plural

by Xander Peters December 1, 2021December 1, 2021

Requiem for the longleaf pine

by Xander Peters October 6, 2021October 6, 2021

Southern Politics

Prostitution was already illegal in Louisiana. Then Republicans crafted an even more damning law used to target trans sex workers.

by Matt Nadel June 1, 2021April 20, 2022

A Prophet Without Eyes: Pauli Murray's Moment

by Brenna M. Casey April 30, 2021October 6, 2021

Freedom wasn't given—it was seized

by Samantha Willis April 6, 2021April 7, 2021

The old devil and the new details

by Mab Segrest March 29, 2021April 29, 2021

'Pure America': Eugenics past and present

by Adam Willems March 2, 2021March 3, 2021

Review: One Night in Miami

by Khayla Deans February 23, 2021March 3, 2021

How Black kids reclaimed the whitewashed world of 1920's children's literature

by Paige Gray February 8, 2021February 8, 2021

The Color of Freedom: Reimagining portraits of the formerly enslaved

by Lee Hedgepeth February 5, 2021February 5, 2021

Scalawag Updates

Essential Reading: Black History and Black Futures

by Scalawag Editors February 1, 2021February 1, 2021

Pauli Murray: Black revolutionary

by Dolores Chandler January 29, 2021January 29, 2021

A white supremacist coup succeeded in 1898 North Carolina, led by lying politicians and racist newspapers that amplified their lies

by Kathy Roberts Forde & Kristin Gustafson January 18, 2021September 14, 2021

A forgotten coup in the American heartland echoes Trump

by Russell Cobb, The Conversation January 12, 2021January 12, 2021

Before Charlie Parker, there was Lester Young

by Brian Major December 9, 2020December 9, 2020

The Mutual Musicians Foundation is fighting the gentrification of Jazz in Kansas City

by Zeb Larson December 8, 2020December 9, 2020

There Goes the Neighborhood: What really caused the decline of 18th & Vine

by Zeb Larson December 8, 2020December 9, 2020

The first Black drag queen in North Alabama and other untold stories of the Queer South

by Sarah Prager November 17, 2020November 16, 2022

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

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