What Ted Cruz Doesn't Know About Apartheid

And it's not just what the word means

"...that Israel's policies towards Palestinians tack dangerously close to apartheid-era South Africa...."

May 2, 2014 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Sexual Apartheid

"...marriage. It's oppression; it's separate but equal; it's sexual apartheid...."

Oct. 5, 2008 Postmarks

Public Notice: The New Apartheid?

Everyone hates the non-transect zones

March 3, 2017 News Column by Nick Barbaro

Mapping 'Political Apartheid'

The new map gives DeLay more R's, but perhaps fewer than he wanted.

July 11, 2003 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom

Idris Elba is spellbinding in this biopic that reveres the man but slights the movement.

"...better timed. This nation-builder and worldwide face of the anti-apartheid movement died at the beginning of this month at..."

Dec. 20, 2013 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Amandla! A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony

"...at the Austin Film Festival 2002.) The history of apartheid in South Africa is an ugly story, but one..."

March 14, 2003 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Searching for Sugar Man

Rodriguez, a Seventies-era singer/songwriter who flopped in America, became a superstar in South Africa, unbeknownst to him. This documentary uncovers the legend.

"...was South Africa. Rodriguez’s music became anthemic for the anti-apartheid Voëlvry movement of the Afrikaans counterculture, and the musician,..."

Aug. 17, 2012 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Invictus

Morgan Freeman stars as Nelson Mandela in this true story of the leader helping to heal a nation through rugby.

"...born of an ulterior motive: that of building a post-apartheid nation. Understanding the emotional symbolism of sports culture, Mandela..."

Dec. 11, 2009 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Jimmy Carter: Man From Plains

Filmmaker Jonathan Demme accompanies Jimmy Carter during the former president's controversial book tour for Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid, and in the process offers a re-evalution of this world leader.

"...frequently defended, his most recent title, Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid. Yup, them’s fighting words, quite intentionally; as Carter explains..."

March 14, 2008 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Cape of Good Hope

There's a sweet bent to this simple South African film about a multicultural group of employees at a Cape Town animal shelter who find both goodness and hope in their troubled lives.

"...anything else. Given the film’s setting, the ghost of apartheid lingers and informs two of its storylines, one involving..."

Dec. 16, 2005 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Sarafina!

"...Goldberg, Miriam Makeba and John Kani. A musical about apartheid!? Does this really sound like a successful premise? Still,..."

Oct. 2, 1992 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Power of One

"...about the personal costs of South Africa's system of apartheid, set in the removed safety of bygone decades and..."

April 10, 1992 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Art Should Be Brave...

James Earl Jones on Apartheid, Racism, and Hollywood

"...to keep my anger after all, he's laboring under apartheid -- in abeyance. I had to hang on to..."

Jan. 19, 1996 Screens Feature

Thomas Frank's 21st Century Corruption Theory

A Q&A with the author of What's the Matter With Kansas? and The Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Rule

"...I did. I was in college when all the anti-apartheid protests were going on. I remember that, I went..."

Aug. 15, 2008 News Feature by Wells Dunbar

Truth or Consequences

Frances Reid and Deborah Hoffmann's Long Night's Journey Into Day confronts issues of justice and forgiveness as it documents the hearings of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission. The film screens Wednesday, Nov. 14, at the Alamo Drafthouse as part of the Texas Documentary Tour.

"...and the National Party when 40 years of brutal apartheid was ended, at least officially, in 1994. Amnesty for..."

Nov. 9, 2001 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

William Kentridge: Weighing ... and Wanting

William Kentridge's film 'Weighing ... and Wanting' re-examines the biblical tale of Belshazzar in post-apartheid South Africa

"...and Wanting re-examines the legacy of Belshazzar's message in post-apartheid South Africa. While the political climate shared by Belshazzar's..."

Nov. 3, 2006 Arts Review by Nikki Moore

Conservatives Blast Cruz for Praising Mandela

Senator's supporters yearn for the days of apartheid

"...you may honor him for ridding the nation of apartheid, though you cannot honor the killings and intimidations he..."

Dec. 6, 2013 News Post by Richard Whittaker

"This Is Palestine Calling'

Excerpts from Refugees in Our Land by Muna Hamzeh

"...Sure you do. Remember when the movie was released, apartheid still existed in South Africa? Remember how we all..."

Oct. 19, 2001 News Feature

Pink Floyd's Roger Waters Gets Political With the Chronicle

He should be a prime-time news analyst. Televisions would melt.

"...of the United States government, Israel cannot pursue its apartheid policies. It can't do it...."

March 20, 2020 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Gaza Grief

"...are providing one-sided perspectives, ignoring critical context like the apartheid designation from Human Rights Watch and Amnesty. This crisis..."

Oct. 31, 2023 Postmarks

South African Wine Shines at Cape Bottle Room

East Austin shop focuses on an under-the-radar wine region

"...large wine regions is the country's decades-long use of apartheid. Nations that rightfully objected to this deplorable practice imposed..."

Aug. 4, 2023 Food Feature by Taylor Tobin

Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance With Somebody

Disappointing biopic of the woman that made "I Will Always Love You" her own

"...bombastic moments like Houston’s historic performances in a newly post-apartheid South Africa arrive, they do so with a whimper,..."

Dec. 23, 2022 Movie Review by Jenny Nulf

Moffie

Brutality and sexual awakening in Apartheid-era South Africa

"...expected to endure in defense of his adopted country’s apartheid system and its reactionary response to the Communists next..."

April 9, 2021 Movie Review by Steve Davis

2021 Oscar-Nominated Shorts: Live Action

Great performances bolster this year's Academy nominees

"...honest and affecting look at the dehumanization of Israeli apartheid filtered through the lens of a Palestinian man on..."

April 2, 2021 Movie Review by Selome Hailu

Cold Case Hammarskjöld

An assassination, a conspiracy, and decades of secrets unlocked in this chilling documentary

"...“clinics” may actually have been a front for an apartheid-era sort of ethnic cleansing à la Josef Mengele. The..."

Aug. 23, 2019 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Going Underground at the Vortex

Lisa B. Thompson's new drama digs deep into politics past and present, and asks us all: What are you gonna do?

"...met 30 years before, students deeply engaged in protesting apartheid and its institutional support in the U.S. There's history..."

March 24, 2017 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

A United Kingdom

A film on love, race, and royalty

"...protectorate Bechuanaland (now Botswana) located just north of the apartheid and mineral-rich nation of South Africa. From Sam McCurdy’s..."

March 3, 2017 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Rick Perry's Chutzpah

Governor now one of God's chosen people (at least he's read about them)

"...Sen. Ted Cruz's baffling mangling of the history of Apartheid to take pot shots at Secretary of State John..."

June 18, 2014 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Blended

America's favorite screen couple, Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore, mosey through another rom-com.

"...they “ain’t gonna play Sun City.” Their beef with apartheid is now a rallying cry from the past, but..."

May 23, 2014 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Father Time

Claude van Lingen's conceptual artwork counts down from 1,000

"...actions would catalyze an international response to the 12-year-old apartheid government – apartheid being the systematized segregation and resettlement..."

Dec. 20, 2013 Arts Feature by Andy Campbell

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