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A Decade of Scalawag: Top Stories Each Year
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A Decade of Scalawag: Top Stories Each Year

by Scalawag Editors December 30, 2024December 13, 2024

In November, Scalawag celebrated a decade of collaboratively strengthening Southern social movements with our reporting. Thanks to Beloved Community, we remain a part of cultivating a liberated South. In late 2014, editors were waiting on the first round of final drafts to be submitted, and the next summer—amidst many uprisings and rebellions calling for dignity […]

Hell and High Water: From Gaza to Mississippi
Posted inRACE & PLACE

Hell and High Water: From Gaza to Mississippi

by Mary Annaïse Heglar May 2, 2024August 27, 2024
Elena Kiejliches, featured on 'Snapped' in 2004, reveals how her story was twisted to perpetuate harmful stereotypes about women's violence.
Posted inRACE & PLACE

'It's not a story—it's a life:' A look at Snapped, from the inside

by Elena Kiejliches and Molly Hagan November 21, 2023November 21, 2023
An abolitionist review of the Barbie movie's imaginative universe serves as a reminder that systemic oppression can indeed be destroyed.
Posted inRACE & PLACE

Barbie: Pretty Police

by Eteng Ettah July 27, 2023July 27, 2023
Review: The Barbie movie punts meaningful concepts into the void and leaves us with nothing. But maybe that’s the point.
Posted inARTS & SOUL

Come on Barbie, give us nothing!

by Virginia Walcott July 27, 2023July 27, 2023
Posted inRACE & PLACE

"Pull up your pants or go to jail!"

by Justin A. Davis June 30, 2023June 30, 2023
Posted inRACE & PLACE

Another kind of Memphis Blues

by Justin A. Davis June 15, 2023June 15, 2023
Tina Turner performs onstage at the United Center, October 1, 2000. (Photo by Paul Natkin/Getty Images) How Tina Turner's abuse and trauma remains a hip-hop trope.
Posted inARTS & SOUL

How Tina Turner's trauma remains a hip-hop trope—and why we need to abolish it

by Justin A. Davis May 25, 2023November 13, 2023
Unlike the NBC show, real life night court "is a place you can go to see that as a society we don't care about poor people. You’re in this microcosm of all the institutions that failed our clients."
Posted inRACE & PLACE

Night Court: New(ish) Sitcom, Same Copaganda

by Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg April 20, 2023November 21, 2023
We're Here: Florida's Queer Resistance. Exploring themes of LGBTQ+ activism and resilience in the face of adversity in drag.
Posted inRACE & PLACE

We're Queer, 'We're Here,' and We're Fighting Back

by Sezin Koehler March 23, 2023November 21, 2023
Posted inRACE & PLACE

Everything (Queer) Everywhere All At Once

by mónica teresa ortiz March 10, 2023December 1, 2023
Posted inRACE & PLACE

Abolishing the Black Superhero Complex: From Black Panther to MLK

by Bria Massey March 2, 2023December 1, 2023
Posted inRACE & PLACE

Contradictions and Convictions: Megan Thee Stallion and why abolition can't wait

by Da'Shaun Harrison February 14, 2023December 1, 2023
Rom-coms don’t need to promote the police state; in fact, cop romance movies detract from what makes rom-coms so, well, lovable.
Posted inRACE & PLACE

The romantic comedies convincing you to fall in love with the police

by Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg February 14, 2023December 1, 2023
Posted inRACE & PLACE

Cop City, Gentrification, and Young Thug: Atlanta's uneven war over greenspace in 'The City of the Forest'

by Justin A. Davis February 9, 2023December 1, 2023
Posted inRACE & PLACE

How 'the shadow of state abandonment' fostered then foiled Young Thug's YSL

by Justin A. Davis February 9, 2023December 14, 2023
Abolition on TV
Posted inRACE & PLACE

Abolition on TV: Pop Justice Wrapped

by Eteng Ettah January 19, 2023January 20, 2023
Posted inRACE & PLACE

There are 'Stranger Things' than abolition, but the show won't go there.

by Endria Isa Richardson December 22, 2022December 1, 2023
Posted inRACE & PLACE

pop justice: the 'chicken salad' pipeline

by Ko Bragg December 9, 2022December 1, 2023
Posted inARTS & SOUL

How to do away with copaganda: Three Emmy-nominated shows to watch with an abolitionist lens

by Kaitlin Fontana, Rebecca Bodenheimer and Naa Djama Attoh-Okine September 16, 2022December 4, 2023
Posted inRACE & PLACE

Only Murders in the Building exemplifies the lies in 'true' crime

by Adedoyin "Ade" Adeniji and Bria Massey September 16, 2022December 4, 2023
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE

The Dropout dramatizes Elizabeth Holmes' fraudulent rise. Endless military funding is also a scam.

by Bria Massey September 13, 2022December 4, 2023
Posted inRACE & PLACE

Yellowjackets shows a world without police as disorderly. Abolitionists aren't buying it.

by Molly Lipson September 13, 2022December 4, 2023
Posted inRACE & PLACE

Abbott Elementary and the promise of schools without cops

by Eteng Ettah September 12, 2022December 4, 2023
Posted inRACE & PLACE

The White Lotus is supposed to be satire. Hawaiians deserve the last laugh.

by Mariah Rigg September 12, 2022December 4, 2023
Posted inRACE & PLACE

RuPaul's Drag Race visibilizes queerness—and the police state

by Sezin Koehler September 12, 2022December 4, 2023
Posted inARTS & SOUL

Netflix's 'Spiderhead' forgets that the truth about prisons is stranger than sci-fi

by Siona Peterous September 2, 2022December 4, 2023
Memphis rapper Princess Loko's posthumous feature on "Renaissance" asks us to reckon with living on the margins in a surveillance state.
Posted inRACE & PLACE

Longtime Memphis rapper Princess Loko died in obscurity. Will a Beyoncé feature grant her the 'Renaissance' she's overdue?

by Justin A. Davis August 11, 2022December 5, 2023
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE

Contrary to popular belief, healthcare in prison is far from free. Sometimes, it can cost your life.

by Luci Harrell June 24, 2022December 5, 2023
Posted inRACE & PLACE

What the history books won't tell you about abolition

by Gabrielle A. Perry June 24, 2022December 5, 2023

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