• MISSION
  • SOUTHERN POLITICS
  • RACE & PLACE
  • ARTS & SOUL
  • NEWSLETTERS
    • POP JUSTICE
    • THIS WEEK IN THE SOUTH
  • Instagram
  • Twitter
  • Facebook
  • TikTok

SOUTHERN POLITICS

RACE & PLACE

ARTS & SOUL

NEWSLETTERS

WE'RE DREAMING UP ABOLITIONIST FUTURES. Help us share our vision.

Support us

FOLLOW US:

  • Instagram
  • Twitter
  • Facebook
  • TikTok
Skip to content
SCALAWAG

Scalawag

Reckoning with the South

  • SOUTHERN POLITICS
  • RACE & PLACE
  • ARTS & SOUL
  • NEWSLETTERS
    • POP JUSTICE
    • THIS WEEK IN THE SOUTH
  • MISSION
DONATE
  • Topics
  • ABOLITION WEEK
  • WEEK OF WRITING: #STOPCOPCITY
  • grief & other loves
  • POP JUSTICE
  • BLACKNESS
  • EDUCATION
  • ORGANIZING
  • QUEERNESS
  • THE PRESS IN PRISON
  • WITNESS

Housing

Posted inRACE & PLACE

These Muslim men are disrupting cycles of homelessness after prison

by Khawla Nakua March 14, 2023March 13, 2023

When Baquee Sabur, who is Muslim, knocked on a shelter door looking for a safe place to sleep, he said they tried to turn him away because of his faith. Now he runs his own transitional housing for Muslims in Texas.

Posted inSOUTHERN POLITICS

New Urbanism sells faux sustainability as a luxury on Florida's 30A

by Ashira Morris October 13, 2021November 16, 2022
Volunteers with Southern Solidarity's New York team pause for a photo while handing out supplies to the city's unhoused folks.
Posted inSOUTHERN POLITICS

Homelessness and eviction have always been public health crises. The pandemic made them even more deadly.

by Sarah Glen September 13, 2021September 21, 2021
Posted inSOUTHERN POLITICS

'A lifetime of damage' on a creosote plume in Houston's Fifth Ward

by Xander Peters August 3, 2021August 2, 2021
Posted inSOUTHERN POLITICS

In Arkansas, falling behind on rent could mean jail time

by Maya Miller & Ellis Simani, ProPublica; & Benjamin Hardy, Arkansas Nonprofit News Network March 22, 2021March 26, 2021
Posted inSOUTHERN POLITICS

The Southern Tenant Union Playbook

by Sam Russek March 12, 2021March 15, 2021
Posted inRACE & PLACE

The South's communication infrastructure can't withstand climate change

by Bailey Basham January 8, 2021March 16, 2021
Posted inSOUTHERN POLITICS

The obvious solution to Houston's housing crisis: 'Just cease all evictions'

by Sam Russek December 21, 2020August 26, 2021
Posted inRACE & PLACE

Too heartbreaking to leave, too expensive to stay. More than 802,000 homes are at risk of climate disaster—mostly in the South.

by Xander Peters August 7, 2020November 2, 2020
Posted inSOUTHERN POLITICS

Rent Strikes & Beyond: Housing strategies that work for the South

by Alysia Nicole Harris April 9, 2020September 16, 2020
Posted inSOUTHERN POLITICS

Rent Strikes & Beyond: Understanding eviction laws in the South

by Alysia Nicole Harris April 8, 2020September 16, 2020
Posted inSOUTHERN POLITICS

Community takes down neo-Nazis and slumlords in rural Tennessee

by Katie Myers March 9, 2020September 16, 2020
Posted inRACE & PLACE

Mold, foundation cracks, sinking houses: How a Florida Habitat for Humanity neighborhood fell apart

by Imani J. Jackson January 15, 2020October 27, 2020
Posted inSOUTHERN POLITICS

How communities are fighting to save New Orleans from an Airbnb takeover

by Carly Berlin April 1, 2019November 16, 2022
Posted inRACE & PLACE

Hell and high water: How flooding and buyouts threaten Black history

by Laura Thompson March 11, 2019October 27, 2020

WE'RE DREAMING UP ABOLITIONIST FUTURES. Help us share our vision.

Support us

Latest stories:
ARTS & SOUL

The Color of Grief

by Justin Hardiman September 22, 2023September 22, 2023
RACE & PLACE

What living through COVID in jail taught me about abolition

by David Campbell September 21, 2023September 21, 2023
SOUTHERN POLITICS

Young Southerners speak out: Reflections on the youth mental health crisis

by Scalawag Community September 14, 2023September 14, 2023
SOUTHERN POLITICS

Notes on 'In Their Own Words,' a series on the youth mental health crisis

by Rainesford Stauffer September 14, 2023September 14, 2023
SOUTHERN POLITICS

For LGBTQ+ young Kentuckians, community matters for mental health

by Ray Loux September 14, 2023September 14, 2023
SOUTHERN POLITICS

LGBTQ+ students in Tennessee have never been more terrified

by Lauren Barton September 14, 2023September 14, 2023


FOLLOW US:
  • Instagram
  • Twitter
  • Facebook
  • TikTok

NEVER MISS AN OPPORTUNITY TO LEARN MORE. Sign up for our newsletter:



  • SUBMISSIONS
  • JOBS
  • EDITORIAL INDEPENDENCE
  • TRANSPARENCY
  • MEMBERSHIP
  • MANAGE YOUR ACCOUNT
  • MISSION
© 2023 Scalawag. Proudly powered by Newspack by Automattic
  • Instagram
  • Twitter
  • Facebook
  • TikTok