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Blue County, Purple State

by Kamryn Hailey and Sinclair Holian November 8, 2022November 7, 2022

While the county might remain an uphill battle for Republicans, North Carolina as a whole is a political toss-up.

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On abortion, count on Gen Z for more than votes

by Rainesford Stauffer November 7, 2022December 13, 2022

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How we save ourselves: Interventions beyond the ballot box

by Anoa Changa October 11, 2022November 4, 2022

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'A modernized, streamlined incarceration experience.' New prison technology surveils life on both sides of the wall.

by Lyle C. May September 29, 2022December 1, 2022

Getting 'Candid' with rapper Ivy Sole

by Taylor Hosking May 10, 2022May 10, 2022

Treva Lindsay and Melissa Harris-Perry on misogynoir, poverty, and violence

by Courtney Napier April 25, 2022April 25, 2022

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'This plan is a lie.' How biogas could do more harm than good for the hog industry

by Cameron Oglesby March 24, 2022March 28, 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

Taken outside the changes

by Julian Reid December 8, 2021December 8, 2021

Soul City: A Black dream killed just as it was coming true

by Danielle Purifoy July 27, 2021July 29, 2021

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The incalculable cost of cheap chicken—and the hidden industry that shoulders it

by Tina Vasquez July 20, 2021September 23, 2021

Abolition made practical

by Alysia Nicole Harris July 6, 2021July 6, 2021

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Qualified Immunity: How 'ordinary police work' tramples civil rights

by Lyle C. May June 23, 2021October 18, 2021

Two letters from North Carolina prisons make the same demands—45 years apart.

by Anne C. Willett & A.L. Harris June 22, 2021June 23, 2021

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In Alamance County, a battle for racial justice confronts a bloody past and an uncertain future

by Carli Brosseau, ProPublica May 28, 2021July 27, 2021

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How Durham, North Carolina, became the first US city to ban police exchanges with Israel

by Zaina Alsous and Sammy Hanf May 18, 2021May 18, 2021

A Prophet Without Eyes: Pauli Murray's Moment

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

HBCUs are keeping the rest of the South safe

by Alexis Wray April 27, 2021May 20, 2021

The fall and rise of North Carolina's first Black school

by Rupen Fofaria, EdNC.org April 13, 2021April 13, 2021

The old devil and the new details

by Mab Segrest March 29, 2021April 29, 2021

Scalawag Updates

'Go There Ready for War'—Militia Organizing in North Carolina in the Context of the Insurrection at the US Capitol

by Mab Segrest March 29, 2021April 7, 2021

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Student journalists at an HBCU campus newspaper took on racist local media—and won

by Alexis Wray February 2, 2021November 16, 2022

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

by Courtney Napier January 26, 2021February 2, 2021

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1.8 million eligible North Carolina voters didn't cast ballots in 2020. Trump won the state by 74,481.

by Coleen Harry, WFAE January 25, 2021January 25, 2021

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

by Courtney Napier January 19, 2021May 7, 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

Meet the Southern librarians fighting for racial justice and truth-telling

by Jason Christian December 29, 2020January 11, 2021

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The Last, the Least, and the Lost

by Courtney Napier and Anoa Changa December 3, 2020January 11, 2021

Safety looks like full bellies in a pandemic

by Courtney Napier November 30, 2020November 30, 2020

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When Democracy meets Partisanship

by Courtney Napier and Anoa Changa November 19, 2020November 19, 2020