The Atlanta DIY scene is redefining protest through music
"This track is for real about fuck the cops. Fuck the cops in Lakewood fucking harassing people."
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
On Organized Labor's AntiBlack Mythology
The truth is that modern economic challenges are going to require contending with denialism about the inherent antiBlackness of this economic system. It requires diversifying the industries we think about unionizing, especially given that union density is at just 10 percent in 2025.
Arts & Soul
An Eye Whose Fleet Sings
Both eyelids and eyes are untoward, leaning forward. A leak made waterfall. There's more and more yet none meets the eye.
Race & Place
"A Good Place to Raise a Boy": Masculinity and the Murder of Emmett Till
Coming into Sumner, Mississippi, in 1955, there was a sign that read "Sumner: A Good Place to raise a boy." I am presented with the question: raising a boy to be what? It has been seventy years since the murder of Emmett Till. The question still presents itself: how do we raise boys into the…
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