This essay is Part 2 in a series analyzing the zombie racial Other in media. The horde is, of course, imagined as a "zombie border siege" and players gain points for each deflected zombie. It's ...

Whistleblowers claim that problematic officers are moved to instructor positions within the APD training academy, where they abuse recruits.

Photograph showing Gov. Wallace attempting to block integration at the University of Alabama, standing defiantly at a door while being confronted by Deputy U.S. Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach.

An Atlanta organizer connects essential dots between the '96 Olympics, the GILEE program, and the global expansion of urban policing.

Joel Elliott is an investigative journalist covering human rights and abuses of power. Reporting for his first newspaper, Georgia’s Toccoa Record, earned him the national Payne Award for Ethics in ...

Post-9/11 anxieties fed into the increasing success of pop culture zombie mythology in the new millennium—in film, TV, games, and more.

This coverage was made possible by a grant through the URL Collective, a nonprofit supporting local, diverse media. Scalawag and URL Collective have partnered to bring you election reporting from ...

University of Georgia Geography professor Nik Heynen and his students survey the mound of newly harvested sugarcane on Sapelo Island before processing it and replanting it elsewhere on the island. All ...

Decaying plantation houses, spectral forms in haunted dwellings, the past creeping into the present, and dark family secrets. Curses, mysteries, and hauntings. Taboo desires, religious fanaticism, and ...

the night my Gramma died. I received a call around 11 p.m. the night my Gramma died. I immediately knew what the buzzing on my nightstand meant for my world from then on. That knowing prevented me ...

Ballad Health billboards line Highway 23 from Wise, VA to Kingsport, TN. The driving time between Ballad's Urgent Care centers spans one hour. Photos by Emily Madden. Editor's note: Since this story ...

Dianna Cormier-Jackson stands in the front yard of her home in Houston’s Fifth Ward, across the street from where her parents lived, and where her daughter has a house today. While their community is ...