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The church became our community's last shelter against pollution
The untold story about Jackson's water crisis begins in the 1970s, when the city's schools integrated classrooms and moving vans carried white families to suburbs like Madison. That's how West Jackson, where my grandfather bought his shotgun house with railroad sweat, became abandoned territory.
Diddy's Trial Shows Why the Carceral System Will Never Deliver Justice
Achieving justice requires dismantling the very systems that perpetuate inequality and violence because as long as those hierarchies exist, the powerful will always find ways to skate by and the oppressed will always be the ones policed, punished, and left unprotected.
South to South: A Scalawag Reading List
If there is to be an abolitionist future, the seeds of those chains' undoing are sewn across multiple Souths.
Climate Resilience: A Scalawag Reading List
The South is a region that suffers from structural antiBlackness and the afterlife of the plantation's insistence on underdeveloping crucial infrastructures that protect against and speed recovery from extreme weather events.
Abolitionist Politics and Incarcerated Perspectives: A Scalawag Reading List
As an Abolitionist publication, stories focused on the prison industrial complex—as well as all carceral social systems that discipline us into policing ourselves and one another—remain Scalawag's foremost publishing priority.
Southern Cultures: A Scalawag Reading List
As a Southern publication, Scalawag is committed to defining and redefining the way "The South" is conceptualized in cultural discourses, as we, at the same time, uplift storytelling that centers the lived experience and perspectives of folks living in and native to the South.