Stitching the Soil: The Freedom Quilting Bee and Black Land Sovereignty
Freedom is dirt. Freedom is a foundation. Freedom is a sewing machine that purrs in a building you own, on land no one can take away from you.
Over the past few months, we've lost critical funding because we stand in solidarity with the most oppressed. We told the truth. And that makes some people uncomfortable. But we didn't build Scalawag for comfort. We built it for liberation.
Southern politics
Death By Black Excellence
This pathology operates on a dual axis that prevents meaningful discourse about the material conditions we as Black people face, all while obscuring the diversity of the elite class that perpetuates it.
Arts & Soul
Race & Place
Bombing Iran: Crude Oil Gulf Extraction and Gulf South Petro-Devastation
The same logic that organizes the extraction of the Global South organizes the domestic South. The plantation did not disappear, and the Middle Passage lives on.
Essays & Letters
Surviving Fascism: Lessons from Jim Crow
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