Southern Identity Archives – Scalawag

For Black cowboys—from inner-city Philly to small-town Texas—horses and riding are a way of life

by Nick Lehr, The Conversation July 16, 2021

Photojournalist Ron Tarver spent years photographing people largely ignored in mythic depictions of white cowboys and the American West.

'T-Pain was important because he was ours'

by Israel Daramola March 8, 2021March 8, 2021

This is damn sure not our grandparents' rhythm and blues

by Marcus K. Dowling February 16, 2021February 16, 2021

'A democracy we didn't achieve 50 years ago'

by Alice Driver January 5, 2021January 5, 2021

Southern Politics

'If I asked my family to get rid of a bumper sticker, they would tell me to quit my job.'

by Iliana Hagenah December 17, 2020December 17, 2020

Southern Politics

I ran from my church after Trayvon Martin's murder—but not from my religion

by Courtney Napier December 17, 2020December 18, 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

In Photos: When we couldn't come home

by Philip Harris November 23, 2020November 23, 2020

Scalawag Updates

Southern Sustenance

by Scalawag Editors November 20, 2020April 16, 2021

Why drill and trap are the soundtrack of this generation's protests

by Nicholas Vila Byers November 13, 2020November 13, 2020

Southern Politics

Queer love and struggle in Jackson, Mississippi

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

Southern Politics

"If we win here, we can win anywhere"

by Anna Simonton April 8, 2019September 16, 2020

Toppling giants: painting the removal of confederate monuments

by Ben Hamburger January 14, 2019September 16, 2020

To my thirteen-year-old son

by LaToya Faulk December 24, 2018October 1, 2020

Southern Politics

How transgender people in the South are helping each other get health care

by Lewis Raven Wallace October 24, 2018September 16, 2020

Family and community survival inspire delicious food at Suryana Cuisine in Clarkston, GA

by Jodi Cash August 28, 2018October 1, 2020

"I never let the viewer sit too long in one or the other." An Interview with Allison Janae Hamilton on "Pitch"

by Zaina Alsous August 23, 2018September 16, 2020

Celebrating Southern joy at Mustock music festival

by André Chung July 19, 2018September 16, 2020

Three Poems by Kay Billie Oakes

by Kay Billie Oakes July 4, 2018December 3, 2020

Portrait of Myself Kneeling

by Aaron Deutsch May 30, 2018September 16, 2020

Deep Gap

by Serena Jewell May 28, 2018October 1, 2020

In Montgomery, a harrowing, beautiful reckoning with racial terror

by Sammy Feldblum May 8, 2018October 1, 2020

The Muslims are not here to answer your questions

by Zaina Alsous March 29, 2018September 16, 2020

Southern Politics

Full Court Press

by Ashish George February 20, 2018September 16, 2020

Daddy's Hymn

by Derwin Sisnett January 17, 2018September 16, 2020

Gospel Interrupted

by Daniel Edward Moore January 10, 2018September 16, 2020

Southern Politics

"It's going to take resoluteness": Elizabeth Sanders on uprooting white supremacy in Central Appalachia and beyond

by R. Garringer January 9, 2018September 16, 2020

Rufus and Ella's Essay of Days

by James William Dunlap January 3, 2018September 16, 2020

Southern Politics

There's a Mass Movement for Freedom Growing in the South

by Elizabeth Wright, James Perry, Kelanii Jones and Hope Hart December 28, 2017September 16, 2020