We Sinners, Born Again in the Breaking
Last time I seen the sun, it was midnight in the juke joint, horns crying through blue smoke, bodies glowing like stained glass, footsteps melting into heart pine.
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
How Aristotle Jones Became the 'Appalachian Soul Man'
Aristotle Jones learned Appalachian Soul music porch-pickin' with his grandfather Robert Jones. The elder Jones didn't play Bill Monroe or Carter Family Appalachian music. He played Black Appalachian music informed by the South, by gospel, by Delta blues.
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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