Scalawag (https://www.scalawagmagazine.org/category/southern-politics/)
From mass bailouts, to policy reforms, to DIY social services––these organizers are acting on a vision of a world without people in cages.
A North Carolina campaign in solidarity with Palestine was successful, adding to a legacy that dates back to the Civil Rights Movement.
The Music City placed a ban on certain short-term rentals. Then lawmakers––with backing from Airbnb––intervened.
They don’t have a union and it’s illegal for them to strike. So these workers are using direct action to get what they need.
Hundreds of thousands have ingested GenX, a chemical polluting the Cape Fear River. John Wolfe, a mariner who knows and loves the river as much as anyone, reflects on what crisis reveals about our connections to nature, water, and one another.
A recent flap over the “poop train” bringing sewage from New York and New Jersey to Alabama is only the latest in a string of filthy incidents. Why aren’t regulators doing more to help?
Grandmother reared me into a food justice activist as she received government assistance.
State lawmakers who cut corporate taxes want court fines and fees to fund the government. So they’re coming up with ways to make judges jail people who can’t pay.
“In facing the violence of earlier eras, we come to know our present selves.” The National Memorial for Peace and Justice could provoke a reckoning with white supremacy across the whole South.
The economy is booming. Construction is constant, and cranes have become a near-permanent fixture in the skyline.... The displacement caused by rising rents and hungry investors is on clear display in East Nashville.
The labor practices of the region’s most prominent employers dehumanize the very people whose existence their cultural investments flaunt—and this tension isn’t acknowledged in any of the public cultural contributions that Walmart has brought.
Kentucky lawmakers pulled shady moves to gut teacher pensions in spite of massive protests. Now educators are fiercely working to make sure voters “Remember in November.”
A woman was charged almost $200 to divorce her abusive husband. She and her lawyer asked the Kentucky Legislature to fix it.
