Reckoning with the South
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The Pearl River is an integral part of Jackson’s water infrastructure, Louisiana and Mississippi’s wetlands, and the economies of countless cities along its banks—but you wouldn’t know it from talking to our city’s residents. Read more via Scalawag : In Search of the Pearl River .
They won’t give you ear plugs for the disabling and deafening screams of the human test subject, dissected in fascist laboratories. Read more via Scalawag : Poems for Black August .
Despite the promises made, renovations announced, and significant economic impact predicted, the Western Hills Mall project has offered nothing more than silence, abandonment, and a community left to figure out what comes next without a say in the matter. Read more via Scalawag : A Generational Love Letter to Western Hills Mall .
Over time, Bankhead’s reputation as underdeveloped and unsafe became about the people who lived there and the conditions they were left to navigate. Read more via Scalawag : Transplant Wars: From Bankhead to "Upper Westside" .
Whereas imperialist propaganda dehumanizes entire people by reducing them to the worst (and often exaggerated) aspects of their government, Cubans are able to distinguish the contradictions between the U.S. empire and the people domestically subjected to its repression. Read more via Scalawag : We Cannot Abandon Cuba .
The DTHD coalition is putting pressure on Home Depot to: denounce ICE activity in its stores and parking lots; express support for customers, workers, and day laborers; and create policies to keep ICE agents from conducting raids or entering stores without warrants. Read more via Scalawag : Defrost the Home Depot .
The same logic that bombed a novelist's car in 1972 is now embedded in today’s content moderation policies, platform architecture, large language model training data, and the deliberate severing of a fibre-optic cable. Read more via Scalawag : The Assassinated Word: Kanafani at 54 .
The Union of Southern Service Workers (USSW) is an organization of workers in the low-wage, high-turnover service industry of the U.S. South, with members in North Carolina, South Carolina, Alabama, and Georgia. From the beginning, the union has placed political education at the center of its strategic vision. USSW understands that to transform workplaces and […] Read more via Scalawag : Pedagogy…
Camille’s rising star and continued growth is an example of what music people like myself deeply appreciate, especially right now. There’s a great satisfaction in following someone’s journey and witnessing an artist’s craft organically blossom. Read more via Scalawag : From heartache to hope and back again, Jahnah Camille grows .
Last year, Scalawag published a biography of Abram Colby (1820-1872), one of Georgia’s first Black legislators, whose story had been erased in the community he once served. This April, that same community erected a permanent marker honoring him outside of the county courthouse. Read more via Scalawag : Postscript: Abram Colby Unearthed .
