Danielle Jackson

Group prenatal care led by nurse midwives at a progressive clinic in Birmingham could offer a solution to the crisis in maternal health in the U.S.

In the first of a two-part series on midwifery in Alabama, where it has been criminalized for 40 years, Scalawag interviews a Certified Professional Midwife whose work attending home births had previously been underground.

We must speak truth to the power of all that threatens to keep women and girls silent in the face of sexual violence.

“I watch the night sky and wait, for any touch that feels deliberate because I want to be reasonable. I want to be sure before I rise up out of my seat like a viper to strike, injecting him with venom of bitter revenge. I won’t not do anything this time.”

Caity Weaver profiles actress and comedian Maya Rudolph upon the debut of her new series, “Forever.”

Adolph Reed considers how pop culture narratives of Black “inspiration and uplift” featuring a singular (usually male) hero reflect the real-world leadership of Black gatekeepers and talking heads granted legitimacy by “elite opinion-shaping institutions and individuals.” Both, Reed claims, stifle the possibility of political change.

Historian Jackson Lears revisits the breadth, underpinnings, and outcomes of the radical movements of the late 1960s.

“For the past two centuries, degrading visual caricatures of black figures — particularly women of African descent — have played a powerful role in shaping debates about slavery, race and citizenship.”