Scalawag (https://www.scalawagmagazine.org/category/southern-politics/)
Disaster aid budgets are being stretched thin, leaving many people needing to elevate or sell their homes in limbo.
Mayors in three Southern cities have responded to rampant national job loss in the wake of the pandemic with universal basic income experiments. In Appalachia, UBI could prove to be more than just a post-coal economic transition strategy.
The outcome of the November election hinges on whether activists in the South are successful in the struggle for voting rights.
The number of people seeking telemedicine abortions has skyrocketed during the COVID-19 pandemic, especially in Southern states notoriously hostile to reproductive justice.
COVID-19 has heightened a sense of urgency in decarceration and controlled evacuation efforts in Louisiana as a governor's task force also recommends release.
National coverage of a 'historic' resolution in Asheville covers up city hall's refusal to meet Black demands or offer real reparations.
Friends in high places, political donations—inside UNC's racist deal with the Sons of Confederate Veterans around the Silent Sam monument.
In this terrifying time, there may still a path to a radically better future—from debt forgiveness to funding clean energy.
Police keep a tight grip on public records—even those that the law requires them to share.
Parents claim Georgia’s guardian ad litem program permits improper conflicts of interest between guardians and the judges who appoint them.
'[W]hat good is Roe v. Wade to the South if people can’t access the abortion care they need?'
56 years after MLK led a march against Jim Crow in Kentucky’s capital, a new generation marches against police killings of Black women
Black sanitation workers in New Orleans have taken on a historic strike amid the COVID-19 pandemic, holding on to the resolve of the Memphis sanitation workers, on strike for over two months—until they won.
Let’s add prisoners to the long roster of groups for which we demand #mediajustice.
