‘Solidarity over charity’— mutual aid across foreign borders
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When last month’s xenophobic travel ban closed U.S. borders; a community mobilized to bring a stranded loved one home just in time.
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Healing in the wake of environmental trauma: Two poems for National Poetry Month.
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A wide poetics and an even wider sense of justice for the land and its people. Birmingham poets Che Justus and Alina Stefanescu debut new poems for National poetry month exploring the topic of environmental trauma.
Arts & Literature
COVID-19: Context, tools, and strategies for workers from organizers and experts.
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This past Wednesday, March 25, Scalawag brought together labor organizers and legal providers working in the field on a digital call titled “Strategies for Southern Workers Amid the COVID-19 Crisis.” We learned how workers are protecting themselves and fighting for their rights during this crisis.
Labor movement
In pandemic times, radical imagination matters more than ever.
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The privileged are now faced with the opportunity to see that a revolution is coming—one way or another—and choose whether to fight for liberation or let authoritarianism set in.
Essay
Paying homage to the Black Women icons of Ebony and Jet Magazine
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Spelman College hosts Theaster Gates’ Black Image Corporation U.S. Debut. Ming Joy documents the power of this exhibit which features over 2,000 photographs of Black women from the Johnson Publishing Company archives.