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 ...

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 ...

Menil Summer School revealed that Houston lives in George Wallace’s time. That’s right, the long-dead former Governor of Alabama.

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

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

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

Georgia Department of Corrections (GDC) powered up its new Overwatch & Logistics (OWL) program in June 2026 without fanfare because GDC likes secrets. Assistant Director of Facilities, Ahmed Holt, ...

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 ...

Again and again, Black communities treated democracy not as a gift to be gratefully received, but as a system that could and must be made to work as advertised.

Pastor Mendoza has gone to court to push for paved streets. The work still hasn't happened. He puts the high stakes in stark terms, recounting that a sick boy died before an ambulance could reach him ...

Many Black Americans still labor under an enduring myth, not of their own making, that the lives and lived experiences of their distant ancestors are unknowable, lost to the grinding void of ...