
After hurricanes, it’s harder than ever for Lake Charles’ Black residents to cast a ballot, Southerly
This story is the first in a series about how Louisiana communities are recovering from hurricanes during the COVID-19 pandemic, with support form the Pulitzer Center's Connected Coastlines project.
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The Oxford American, Summer/Fall 2020 issue
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The Bitter Southerner
featured in the The Bitter Southerner Reader: Volume 4
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Dispatches as Southerly's Gulf Coast Correspondent:
The key environmental policy priorities for the South, according to experts
‘They’re so weary’: Louisiana teachers recover from back-to-back hurricanes during the pandemic, co-published with The Hechinger Report, with support from The Pulitzer Center
How faith leaders organized to win two major environmental victories in Louisiana, co-reported with Sara Sneath
Toxic spills, pollutants threaten Gulf Coast communities after hurricanes pass
This is what hurricane response looks like during a pandemic
Lessons from Hurricane Katrina: A Q&A with General Honoré
This coastal Mississippi city plagued by environmental hazards has a history of police violence
‘It’s a movement’: Generations of Gulf Coast residents protest police violence, racism
Photos: New Orleans sanitation workers strike for protections and better pay
Struggling Florida Panhandle towns face tough reopening decisions
Coal ash pond remains on Alabama coast despite pollution, hurricane risk
Emergency managers work nonstop to prepare communities for hurricanes during pandemic
At ‘ground zero’ of BP spill, Louisiana community confronts new oil and gas project
Misc. Journalism:
‘We don’t want to die here.’ Detained immigrants protest amid pandemic, Scalawag Magazine
How Louisiana's oil and gas industry uses prison labor, Powerlines Project (co-published by Scalawag Magazine, Southerly Magazine, and the Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture at Columbia University).
Neighbors helping neighbors: a list of coronavirus mutual aid efforts in the South, Scalawag Magazine
High stakes for the climate in Louisiana elections, Scalawag Magazine
Medical neglect, illegal detention, and retaliation in ICE's Deep South stronghold, Scalawag Magazine
20,000 AT&T workers in the South went on strike--and won, Scalawag Magazine
Winning labor rights in the South means changing state laws, Scalawag Magazine
How communities are fighting to save New Orleans from an Airbnb takeover, Scalawag Magazine
Old Bridge, New Cliques, Down East Magazine
Essays:
Two Houses on the Eatonton-Milledgeville Road, The Bitter Southerner
'Watching Donald Glover's Atlanta is like gaining an education,'The Guardian
Knowing Phyllis Austin, Down East Magazine
This Little Light of Mine,The Bitter Southerner
Descendant, Jewish Literary Journal