Long Reads Archives – Scalawag

Wake County promised to reconsider cops in schools. When they didn't, students took to the streets.

by Courtney Napier January 26, 2021January 26, 2021

After years of school board inaction, Wake County students took to the streets to demand changes to North Carolina's racist School Resource Officers program.

'When you come to school, you forfeit your rights'

by Courtney Napier January 19, 2021January 26, 2021

Court fees and fines make voting near-impossible for ex-felons in Tennessee

by Iliana Hagenah December 22, 2020January 5, 2021

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

by Sam Russek December 21, 2020January 21, 2021

The media's extractive telling of Appalachia

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

Dissent in the Pentagon of the South

by Taylor Barnes December 11, 2020December 11, 2020

'Visionary and Pragmatic'—A Black Feminist Guide to Electoral Politics

by Danielle Purifoy October 6, 2020October 6, 2020

As the wood pellet industry grows across the South, Enviva targets Alabama and Mississippi for future expansion

by Danielle Purifoy October 5, 2020October 5, 2020

Knock on Wood: How Europe's wood pellet appetite fuels environmental racism in the South

by Danielle Purifoy October 5, 2020October 5, 2020

New Tennessee law surfaces the South's racist beginnings of felon voter disenfranchisement

by Iliana Hagenah September 28, 2020January 21, 2021

Birmingham increases police budget by $11.2M despite demands to defund: 'People literally cannot breathe, and it's not because of George Floyd'

by Katherine Webb-Hehn August 31, 2020January 21, 2021