Servants and Anchors
GOP throwing chaff as Rep. Riddle rambles about terror babies
"...Williams followed that up by "conjuring up images of slavery, [White's comments] are simply ignorant and offensive."..."
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Aug. 11, 2010 News Post by Richard Whittaker
Page Two: By Vote or by Violence
How will naysayers and protesters 'take back the country'? And from whom?
"...and giving both the right to hold plebiscites on slavery. The result was that both pro- and anti-slavery groups..."
July 30, 2010 Column by Louis Black
Immigration Nation
"...The Mexican and Texan governments at the time outlawed slavery. Johnston hid evidence of slavery by listing the slaves..."
Sept. 17, 2009 Postmarks
Black's Disservice to Democracy
July 25, 2009 Postmarks
A Revolution of Spirit
Ritual jazz theatre pioneer Sharon Bridgforth premieres a new work, her last in Austin
"...her own life. She must make her way through slavery to freedom by learning how to relate to the..."
Jan. 9, 2009 Arts Feature by Abe Louise Young
Reagan High Stands Up and Fights
Reagan High doesn't want to follow in Johnston's footsteps
"...save a school named after someone who fought for slavery. But John H. Reagan wasn't what he appeared to..."
Oct. 31, 2008 News Feature by Kimberly Reeves
Burn, Baby, Burn
On Fahrenheit 451 and why good democracy should make you feel bad
"...from their villages, the banners cried, and forced into slavery! The book contains the word "nigger," they warned. Not..."
Sept. 26, 2008 Screens Feature by Josh Rosenblatt
Nigerian Nobel Laureate: U.S. Making Progress … Wait, What?
Wole Soyinka on campus at UT to discuss Darfur
"...a society that's confronted its past with regards to slavery, and is trying to move forward in a more..."
March 4, 2008 News Post by Matt Martinez
Page Two: Welcome to the Funhouse
Republicans' rhetorical sleight of hand has allowed them to distort this country's founding principles while seeming to uphold them
"...immediate universal success. Despite more than 200 years of slavery and more than 100 of segregation (institutionalized, government-approved racism),..."
Jan. 25, 2008 Column by Louis Black
Thoroughly Modern Millie
The young musical thespians of Summerstock Austin's Thoroughly Modern Millie are determined to entertain you, and they succeed impeccably
"...stenography, visits a speakeasy, and breaks up a white slavery ring. The plot works its way through each convention..."
July 27, 2007 Arts Review by Iris Brooks
Conspiracy Theorists Are the True Patriots; Black Doth Protest Too Much
"...revelations of past conspiracies you say Louis? How about slavery, the Civil War, and Reconstruction? Jim Crow and the..."
July 6, 2007 Postmarks
Let's Not Let Democracy, the Constitution, and American Traditions Get in the Way of Winning the War on Terror
"...moral collapse; cowardice is heroism, surrender is victory, and slavery is freedom. The political home of this destructive attitude..."
April 30, 2007 Postmarks
Apocalypto
The ever-astonishing filmmaker Mel Gibson continues his (probably unintentional) study of the mortification of the flesh through the ages.
"...movie is taken up with the physical trek into slavery, the spectacle of the human sacrifices in the strange..."
Dec. 8, 2006 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Who We Are
The 'Chronicle' interviews Howard Zinn on war, peace, and human nature
"...fact that this country was a slave-holding country after slavery had been abolished all over the world, and that..."
Feb. 10, 2006 News Feature by Diana Welch
Film News
Linklater maps out our 'Fast Food Nation'; plus, Andrew Shapter, Dante James, and a Mitchum among us
"...room where at 7pm Dante James, producer of PBS's Slavery and the Making of America, will honor the legacy..."
May 13, 2005 Screens Column by Joe O'Connell
Sky Blue
This gorgeously dystopian South Korean film rivals and, at times, surpasses the best of Japanese animé.
"...are forced to reconsider this whole idea of selective slavery. Trying to describe the storyline here makes it sound..."
March 4, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
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Our readers talk back.
"...(Oh yeah ... manifest destiny.) Why did they support slavery? (Oops, I forgot ... the Bible supports slavery.)..."
Feb. 18, 2005 Column
Letters at 3AM
Statistics on American education tell a dreadful story,
the story of an advanced technological society
slipping back to a state of ignorance and superstition
"...booklet used in a North Carolina school called Southern Slavery: As It Was, claiming slavery to have been "a..."
Feb. 18, 2005 Column by Michael Ventura
Nothing Christian About 'Impurities'
"...(Oh yeah ... manifest destiny.) Why did they support slavery? (Oops, I forgot ... the Bible supports slavery.) If..."
Feb. 15, 2005 Postmarks
Confederacy of Love
The Sons of Confederate Veterans take a stand for
the old dominion at UT
"...themselves and their ancestors. "We're not attempting to minimize slavery in any way, but we want people to look..."
Nov. 19, 2004 News Feature by Rachel Proctor May
Black Trials: Citizenship From the Beginnings of Slavery to the End of Caste
"...Black Trials: Citizenship From the Beginnings of Slavery to the End of Caste by Mark S. Weiner..."
Oct. 8, 2004 Books Review by Roger Gathman
The Corporation
An immensely informative and provactive documentary about the growth of corporate entities within the legal sphere, marketplace, and human imagination.
"...the 14th Amendment to the Constitution (the one outlawing slavery and granting equal freedoms to all men) has been..."
Sept. 24, 2004 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Republicans No Longer Party of Lincoln
"...Abraham Lincoln led in 1863. Lincoln's party quickly ended slavery in America and passed the 13th, 14th, and 15th..."
July 26, 2004 Postmarks
Spartan
This crackling good David Mamet movie starring Val Kilmer is one if the writer-director's best efforts.
"...new recruit Curtis (Luke), the two stumble into a white-slavery ring. But then things get really complicated and are..."
March 12, 2004 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
The Missing
Ron Howard directs Tommy Lee Jones and Cate Blanchett in tough Western drama.
"...Mexico to sell his stolen white girls into sexual slavery. The movie loses some of its momentum due to..."
Nov. 28, 2003 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
The Project in Interpreting the Texas Past
"...you focus on agency, then people think -- 'Oh, slavery wasn't so bad.' If you focus on the fact..."
July 4, 2003 Features Feature by Abe Louise Young
The Quiet Man
To Kill a Mockingbird screenwriter and Texas Film Hall of Fame inductee Horton Foote reflects on the last 87 years.
"...in five other writers. ... It's a form of slavery. Well-paid slavery at times. Just to be practical, I..."
March 7, 2003 Screens Feature by Robert Faires
Gods and Generals
"...which is close to home. Ideas about economics and slavery often take a back seat to godly devotions and..."
Feb. 21, 2003 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Shame the Devil
The celebrated 19th-century actress Fanny Kemble possessed the courage both to stand on a stage and speak as someone else and to stand on principle and speak up for someone else, as we learn with admiration and delight in the Pollyanna Theatre Company's production of Shame the Devil.
"...Kemble's courage, as she confronts firsthand the evils of slavery on her husband's Georgia plantations. She relates her shocking..."
Jan. 17, 2003 Arts Review
Letters at 3AM
You can't always be who you want, but if you try sometime you just might find you can be who you need.
"...The South, for instance, once wanted slavery -- a fact that most of "those who imagine..."
