Scalawag

20/01/2025

May we knuck and buck as our ancestors did and do. Big love to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on this day.✊🏿

04/12/2024

“Nothing is more important than stopping fascism, because fascism is gonna stop us all.” - Fred Hampton

“You can kill a revolutionary but you can never kill the revolution.” - Fred Hampton

Rest in Power, Fred Hampton, Sr.
August 30, 1948 - December 4, 1969

Power to the MFn people! ✊🏿

24/08/2024

from •

"On this day, a Virgo Queen was born! Marsha P. Johnson’s courage and determination sparked a movement and inspired so many. And it was in her honor that the Marsha P. Johnson Institute was formed. And we are out there every day working to change the conditions for Black trans people because Marsha’s work is not done."

25/07/2024

Emmett Till would have turned 83 today.

21/07/2024

04/07/2024

happy 4th

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02/07/2024

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"Civil rights activist Medgar W. Evers was born in 1925 in Decatur, Mississippi.

In 1954, he became the NAACP’s first field secretary in the state. His main duties were recruiting new members and investigating incidents of racial violence. He also led voter registration drives and mass protests, organized boycotts, fought segregation, and helped James Meredith integrate the University of Mississippi. Evers was key in collecting witnesses and evidence in the Emmett Till murder case, bringing it to the attention of the nation. In 1963, he was assassinated in his driveway by white supremacist Byron De La Beckwith. In 1994, during a 3rd trial, De La Beckwith was convicted of killing Evers and was sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of Evers.



📸 1. and 3. Photograph by Francis H. Mitchell. 2. Photograph by David Jackson. Johnson Publishing Company Archive. Courtesy J. Paul Getty Trust and Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture."

21/06/2024

It's that time again. Spread the word to your current and formerly incarcerated kin.

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19/06/2024

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17/06/2024

We want your q***r poetry.

31/05/2024

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" in 1921, one of the deadliest racial massacres in U.S. history began in the thriving Greenwood African American community of Tulsa, Oklahoma. It was one in a series of actions of racist violence that convulsed the United States in towns and cities beginning with the period of Reconstruction in the late 19th century.

In Tulsa — as in all these massacres — white mobs destroyed Black communities, property, and lives. More than century after the riot, the people of Tulsa and the nation continue to struggle to reckon with the massacre’s multiple legacies.

Our collection materials help fill the silences in our nation’s memory around events such as the Tulsa Race Massacre and its reverberations, preserving and sharing wider stories of Black communities in Oklahoma, and centering the testimonies of survivors and their descendants.

Swipe to see two of these objects — pennies charred during the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, and follow the link in our bio to learn more.



📸 1. and 2. Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Cassandra P. Johnson Smith. 3. and 4. Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Scott Ellsworth."

31/05/2024

In their first essay for Scalawag, Emmy-award winning writer, actor, and comedian ruminates on the myth of the “n*gger,” delivering an insightful analysis alongside thoughtful commentary on “the hood” and its “crash dummies” as they are (mis)represented in online discourse. This essay brims with poignancy, levity, wisdom, and care.

Read it at scalawagmagazine.org