The censorship of journalists is also violence

"…the work people set out to accomplish is vulnerable to becoming mission impossible under the […] structural prohibitions that situate grassroots groups […] in the shadow of the shadow state." Ruth Wilson Gilmore, in the shadow of the shadow state  "Decolonization […] cannot be accomplished by a wave of a magic wand, a natural cataclysm,…

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

When "Realness" Spars With Trump But Serves Empire

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

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