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Jan 6, 2025 | 
scalawagmagazine.org | Tea Troutman
Southern culture describes both the lived experience of folks living in and native to the South, as well as the way "The South" is conceptualized in cultural discourses. This year, Scalawag's contributors wrote on the importance of preserving spaces created by Black and queer Southerners as safe havens to live, love, and collectively struggle.
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Dec 30, 2024 | 
scalawagmagazine.org | Tea Troutman
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. When editor Ko Bragg launched pop justice she wrote, "We did not come out of the womb abolitionists, but many of us feel born into this work.
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Dec 23, 2024 | 
scalawagmagazine.org | Tea Troutman
Climate change and the frequent extreme weather events it causes have ushered in an epoch marked by successive disasters that plague Southern communities at a disproportionately higher rate than their regional counterparts. Scalawag has long centered environmental racism and the Southern tradition of resisting it in our publishing and this year was no exception.
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Dec 16, 2024 | 
scalawagmagazine.org | Tea Troutman
Scalawag has traditionally been a publication focused on amplifying the creativity and lived experience of American Southerners. In 2023, we as a publication moved beyond the loosely defined borders of our South, as the political moment demanded we give voice to the intertwined histories of struggle and shared cultures of our South alongside the Global South.
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Oct 30, 2024 | 
scalawagmagazine.org | Cordell Jones |Tea Troutman |Sherronda J. Brown |Sierra Lyons
Skip to content Posted inSOUTHERN POLITICS "Through strong communal leadership, the preservation of our vibrant history, and effective advocacy for issues that concern our community, it is possible to change the overwhelmingly downtrodden narrative. Therefore, I choose to spotlight the work of the Maven Leadership Collective and The Stonewall National Museum, Archives and Library." Posted inSOUTHERN POLITICS Understanding the history of (anti-)communism, particularly in the American South,...
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Oct 8, 2024 | 
blackagendareport.com | David Hundeyin |Austin Cole |Tea Troutman |Roberto Sirvent
Orisanmi Birton's groundbreaking book, Tip of the Spear, has been listed as contraband in prisons across the country, not only preventing incarcerated people from accessing the book but punishing them if it is found in their possession. These institutions consider Burton's book to be too subversive to allow behind the walls for fear of the increased political awakening of the incarcerated population. This reveals the truth of the illegitimacy and tenuousness of the carceral system.
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Sep 3, 2024 | 
blackagendareport.com | Tea Troutman |Roberto Sirvent
Was Black Studies doomed to fail? Revisiting a critical take on its origins. US “Black Studies” was incorporated into many white institutions more than fifty years ago. But one could argue that this Black Studies project was co-opted at birth, snatched from the streets and domesticated in the white academy’s golden pens, creating a class, not of scholars and teachers, but of hustlers and pimps. This is, in part, what radical poet and publisher Don L. Lee (now respectable writer Haki R.
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Aug 6, 2024 | 
blackagendareport.com | Matt Tracy |Mark Fancher |Roberto Sirvent |Tea Troutman
To commemorate Black August, read Safiya Bukhari's essay on political prisoners and political movements. Her words resonate today. To mark Black August, we reprint “On the Question of Political Prisoners” by Safiya Bukhari (1950 - August 24, 2003). Born in the Bronx, Bukhari came to political consciousness during college, joining the Black Panther Party and, later, the Republic of New Africa.
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Feb 6, 2024 | 
blackagendareport.com | Roberto Sirvent |Tea Troutman |Danny Haiphong
A 1975 “Declaration Against Imperialism” provides a blueprint for the anti-imperialist Black Studies of the future. From January 10-12, 1975, Black students, teachers, writers, workers, and activists met at Fisk University and proposed a radical re-orientation of the project of Black Studies—a reorientation demanding the serious and focused attention to US imperialism.
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Feb 6, 2024 | 
blackagendareport.com | Roberto Sirvent |Tea Troutman |Danny Haiphong
A 1975 “Declaration Against Imperialism” provides a blueprint for the anti-imperialist Black Studies of the future. From January 10-12, 1975, Black students, teachers, writers, workers, and activists met at Fisk University and proposed a radical re-orientation of the project of Black Studies—a reorientation demanding the serious and focused attention to US imperialism.
