WE’RE DREAMING UP ABOLITIONIST FUTURES. Help us share our vision.Scalawag Reckoning with the South John Henry Merrick was working at W.G. Otey’s barbershop in the late 1800s, serving some of the most prominent men in Raleigh, North Carolina, when an undisclosed misunderstanding with Otey got him fired.  Otey was a prominent Black entrepreneur whose barbershop…

WE’RE DREAMING UP ABOLITIONIST FUTURES. Help us share our vision.Scalawag Reckoning with the South When you reach nirvana, nobody tells you it’s behind a Jimmy John’s. I’m 20 minutes into a conversation with Yah-I Ausar about energy. Specifically, my energy. And about how the food we eat nourishes not just our stomachs, but our souls. For mid-afternoon,…