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Republican lawmakers are battling North Carolina’s Democratic governor to stop medicaid expansion, even though their constituents need it the most.
Some white-led Christian groups are actively working to gentrify Black neighborhoods, claiming it’s part of their social justice mission.
An upcoming City Council vote could empower residents in the struggle for housing affordability.
Families are left to pick up the pieces when a loved one is taken away with no warning.
Scalawag editor Zaina Alsous interviews Albert Woodfox of The Angola Three on his historic survival of over 40 years in solitary confinement while studying and organizing with other prisoners as a member of The Black Panther Party. Woodfox recently published a memoir: Solitary, out now on Grove Press.
Despite public outcry, Asheville’s City Council still refuses to fight a racist gerrymander imposed by right-wing North Carolina lawmakers.
In 1898, life insurance was unattainable for most Black folks in the U.S. John H. Merrick transformed that reality, building the multimillion dollar North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company in Durham’s historic Hayti community. This year marks the 100th anniversary of Merrick’s death in 1919.
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.
Grandmother reared me into a food justice activist as she received government assistance.
Black communities in North Birmingham are up against powerful industries as they call for an end to toxic pollution that’s making them sick.
Progressive officials in Durham, North Carolina have promised bold reforms but haven’t delivered.
Policy wonks aren’t solving climate change. So the most impacted communities are coming together to do it themselves.
Local sheriffs in North Carolina claim that locking up immigrants is profitable. But it’s actually draining their budgets.
The only way to pass this monstrosity was to disguise it.
