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What is the importance of art in a grossly-capitalistic nation? Scalawag editor Alysia Nicole Harris explains the thinking behind our latest issue and continuing support of Southern art, literature, and soul.
After years of complaints against Arkansas’ Craighead County Detention Center, 13 detainees organize a wave a lawsuits to improve toxic environmental conditions at the jail.
For many young artists of color, the pressure of trying to find paying work while still creating art that feels representative of their own community can be enough to fully dissuade them from careers in the arts.
Tough-on-crime attitudes often override the facts––and prisoners’ rights.
Some white-led Christian groups are actively working to gentrify Black neighborhoods, claiming it’s part of their social justice mission.
