Southern Movements Archives – Scalawag

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Scenes from the picket line: Kellogg workers on why they went on strike for two months straight

by Jason Kerzinski November 5, 2021December 3, 2021

The workers standing up and fighting back at the Memphis factory were part of a wave of strikes happening across the country.

Abolition made practical

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

Killer Mike's radical lyrics are masking reformist politics

by Nicholas Vila Byers June 8, 2021June 28, 2021

Southern Politics

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

Southern Politics

The Southern Tenant Union Playbook

by Sam Russek March 12, 2021March 15, 2021

We who believe in freedom cannot rest until it comes

by Anoa Changa February 24, 2021March 3, 2021

Southern Politics

Five Peachy Takeaways: Georgia's grassroots organizing lessons will be valuable in the South for a long time coming

by Anoa Changa January 22, 2021August 20, 2021

Southern Politics

To shift the media narrative about the South, we have to rebuild it altogether

by Anoa Changa December 17, 2020December 17, 2020

Southern Politics

The Last, the Least, and the Lost

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

Asheville's 'historic' reparations resolution is not what it seems

by David Forbes July 24, 2020November 12, 2020

Modern abolition and the lasting truth of change

by Scalawag Editors June 18, 2020April 16, 2021

Southern Politics

Black New Orleans City Waste workers build power against a crisis

by Mindy Isser June 17, 2020September 16, 2020

Southern Politics

How COVID-19 has changed the game for Black community organizers

by Courtney Napier June 12, 2020September 16, 2020

The South Hollers 'Black Lives Matter'

by Alysia Nicole Harris June 11, 2020October 1, 2020

Southern Politics

Defunding police: Atlanta shows politicians' promises don't equal change

by Anna Simonton June 9, 2020September 16, 2020

Reckoning with white supremacy: Five fundamentals for white folks

by Lovey Cooper June 1, 2020December 26, 2020

Southern Politics

Rent Strikes & Beyond: Understanding eviction laws in the South

by Alysia Nicole Harris April 8, 2020September 16, 2020

Southern Politics

COVID-19: An extensive—and growing—list of political demands in the South

by Danielle Purifoy April 3, 2020September 16, 2020

In pandemic times, radical imagination matters more than ever.

by Lewis Raven Wallace March 30, 2020February 10, 2021

Southern Politics

This election season, Florida's people's assemblies focus on building a true democracy

by Eli Day March 17, 2020September 16, 2020

Social justice in a time of social distancing

by Kenneth Bailey & Lori Lobenstine March 13, 2020October 1, 2020

Southern Politics

Community takes down neo-Nazis and slumlords in rural Tennessee

by Katie Myers March 9, 2020September 16, 2020

Southern Politics

'Starve the Beast': No New Cops

by Zaina Alsous November 4, 2019July 5, 2021

Together and Beside Ourselves: In Conversation with Artist & Educator Hồng-Ân Trương

by Zaina Alsous July 1, 2019September 16, 2020

A Story of Us: In Conversation with Artists Monét Noelle Marshall and Saba Taj

by Zaina Alsous July 1, 2019September 16, 2020

Green From Below

by Zaina Alsous June 24, 2019October 1, 2020

Southern Politics

Organizers shut down a jail for 7 hours to demand an end to the cash bail system

by Sammy Hanf June 17, 2019September 16, 2020

Scalawag Updates

Abortion is still legal in Georgia–for now

by Scalawag Editors May 13, 2019April 16, 2021

Southern Politics

#NotKeisha: Spelman students protest Atlanta mayor as commencement speaker

by Ko Bragg May 6, 2019September 16, 2020

Abolitionist Global Funk Visual Opera

by Ra Malika Imhotep April 22, 2019June 23, 2021