Mississippi Archives – Scalawag

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, 2022August 3, 2022

Mississippi is home to the most Black farmers—they're also aging and retiring the fastest.

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

by Erica Hensley August 3, 2022August 3, 2022

'Impact of an Icon': Grieving Young Dolph in South Memphis

by Dorian Record June 22, 2022June 22, 2022

'Young people need power.' Southern students on safety, accountability, and what they need from adults

by Rainesford Stauffer June 7, 2022August 16, 2022

Mildred's Mississippi: 'Roll of Thunder' as a love letter home

by Adria R. Walker May 24, 2022May 23, 2022

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How millennial and Gen Z organizers are moving Mississippi beyond Jim Crow

by Anoa Changa April 29, 2022April 29, 2022

Losing Nanny, inheriting her home, and surviving the first year

by Maya Miller March 15, 2022March 25, 2022

Songs for a South underwater

by Sergio Lopez February 11, 2022February 11, 2022

Scalawag's 2021 Sick & Shut In List

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Scalawag's 2021 Sick & Shut In List

by Scalawag Team and Scalawag Editors December 29, 2021December 29, 2021

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Without paid leave, the South's COVID school policies cause a terrible trickle down for families

by Rainesford Stauffer November 18, 2021March 9, 2022

Mississippi's childhood lead exposure interventions don't do enough for kids

by Erica Hensley October 5, 2021March 9, 2022

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

by Julie Poole September 28, 2021September 28, 2021

Scalawag Updates

Hurricane Ida: How to get and give help on the Gulf Coast

by Scalawag Team August 30, 2021September 2, 2021

Salt, Soil, & Supper: The social contracts of municipal water systems

by Xander Peters August 18, 2021August 18, 2021

In portraits and letters: 'Being free is not the same as freedom'

by Jason Kerzinski August 17, 2021August 30, 2021

'Who would want their child to miss everything?'

by Ko Bragg and JS June 25, 2021June 25, 2021

Scalawag Updates

Salt, Soil, & Supper: From Mississipi's farms to kids' bellies

by Xander Peters April 14, 2021April 28, 2021

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Jackson's water crisis: How you can help

by Tim Majors and Scalawag Editors March 9, 2021September 2, 2022

Reporter's Notebook: The Power of Proximity

by Ko Bragg February 12, 2021February 12, 2021

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Democrats eventually won Black youth voters, but will they keep them?

by Iliana Hagenah December 10, 2020December 15, 2020

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Black disillusionment is real, but Black liberation is possible

by Lovey Cooper and Courtney Napier October 16, 2020October 16, 2020

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Don't discount the majority of your state: Reaching rural Southern voters

by Lovey Cooper and Courtney Napier October 16, 2020October 16, 2020

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Black voting rights experts weigh in on disinformation: We've got your back

by Lovey Cooper and Courtney Napier October 16, 2020October 16, 2020

The 'Slave Trail of Tears': recreation or reckoning?

by Sammy Feldblum May 11, 2020October 1, 2020

Young Black Missisippians join May Day protests for workers rights, COVID-19 protections

by Frances Madeson May 6, 2020October 1, 2020

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Bound by Statute: In Mississippi, Jim Crow era laws result in a high rate of Black kids charged as adults

by Ko Bragg November 18, 2019September 16, 2020

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Medical neglect, illegal detention, and retaliation in ICE's Deep South stronghold

by Carly Berlin September 23, 2019September 16, 2020

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Conservatives want to rewrite the Constitution, and they're dangerously close to doing it

by Adam Lynch April 22, 2019November 12, 2020

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Queer love and struggle in Jackson, Mississippi

by Zachary Oren Smith April 15, 2019September 16, 2020

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Mississippians are on the frontlines of the battle for abortion rights

by Ko Bragg February 18, 2019September 16, 2020