Election Ticker: The Final Countdown

Vote-pocalypse now!

"...last week. The signs, a satirical spin on the Black Lives Matter/Love Is Love signs found around town, read:..."

Nov. 2, 2018 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Austin's Day of Resistance

Where to commemorate the first anniversary of the Women’s March

"...nearly two dozen tabling community organizations such as SAFE, Black Lives Matter, and the Human Rights Campaign for resources..."

Jan. 19, 2018 Events Post by Sarah Marloff

Sandra Bland Remembrance Today

Evening event includes march from Victory Grill to Capitol

"...will focus on the activism Bland did for the Black Lives Matter movement at protests in Chicago and through..."

July 13, 2017 News Post by Maria Mendez

Austin Arts Hall of Fame Class of 2017

Flatbed Press founders Katherine Brimberry and Mark L. Smith, choreographer Kate Warren and theatre / spoken word artist Zell Miller III join the ranks of cultural heroes

"...requires real dedication from citizens who believe that it matters. In our own city, it is those artists, educators,..."

June 2, 2017 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Pro-Immigration and Anti-Trump Rallies

Anti-Trump rally leads to arrests

"...posters and chanting “Not My President,” “Love Trumps Hate,” “Black Lives Matter,” and “Her Body, Her Choice,” protesters at..."

Nov. 14, 2016 News Post by Mary Tuma

I Like to Watch: UnREAL and the Forms of Consumption

Season 2 of the Lifetime series proves nothing's perfect

"...must do: The work here of White Feminism vs. Black Lives Matter, of balancing complicated female leads and complicated,..."

Aug. 5, 2016 Screens Column by Jacob Clifton

Justice for Alton Sterling and Philando Castile

"...The Austin Justice Coalition and Black Lives Matter held a vigil on Thu., July 7,..."

July 14, 2016 Photo Gallery

Point Austin: Hearts of Stone

There is little reason to expect the latest shootings will bring an end to gun violence

"...too hard on the police and too easy on Black Lives Matter...."

July 15, 2016 News Column by Michael King

Start With Schools

"...The schools with the most chronic under-enrollment are the blackest and brownest schools in the city, which adversely affects..."

July 11, 2016 Postmarks

APD: The Facebook Friend You Didn't Know You Had

"...more problematic from a free speech perspective. Besides listing "Black Lives Matter" as a keyword, other, more general words..."

Jan. 29, 2016 News Feature by John Anderson

Headlines

"...re-enforced his increasingly frightening radical rump after saying a Black Lives Matter protester at a recent campaign event deserved..."

Nov. 27, 2015 News Feature

White Student Union Hits UT

Who will speak up for white students?

"...he is not alone in this effort, cites the Black Lives Matter movement as one reason for the page...."

Nov. 23, 2015 News Post by Nina Hernandez

Austin African American Book Festival Announces Theme, Guests

“Black Lives Matter” is this year’s guiding theme

"...explore love, perseverance, and intellectual growth under the heading ‘Black Lives Matter.’”..."

May 7, 2015 Arts Post by Kimberley Jones

Jana Birchum's Top 10 Photos of 2014

"...Black Lives Matter rally in the name of Michael Brown,..."

Dec. 30, 2014 Photo Gallery

Bamboozled

"...they had the power to communicate things and change lives. As a filmmaker, he is at his best as..."

Nov. 10, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Failure by Design

"...Capitol building on Saturday for the unveiling of the black history memorial. As hundreds of us stuck around afterward..."

Nov. 21, 2016 Postmarks

Written in Stone

History of racism lives on in UT monuments

"...as an important piece of history and "not a matter of opinion," according to spokesperson Marshall Davis, who was..."

May 29, 2015 News Feature by Mac McCann

Crash

The paths of a seemingly unconnected, multicultural group of Los Angelenos cross in the most compelling American movie to come around in a long while.

"...an unusually cold Christmas season, Crash follows the intertwined lives of a multicultural group of Los Angelenos: two African-American..."

May 6, 2005 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Lovely & Amazing

"...self-esteem and confidence issues have special resonance in the lives of American women, particularly for the generations caught between..."

July 19, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Hate U Give

Astounding adaptation of YA novel critiques race in modern America

"...Race, class, love, death, white privilege, black disadvantage, and the seemingly foregone conclusions that the system..."

Oct. 12, 2018 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

A Double Life

Napoleon Beazley was executed by the state of Texas, but he lives again in a new play

"...What if he's black?..."

July 15, 2005 Arts Feature by Barry Pineo

Hit and Runway

"...Elliot, a brilliant yet neurotic gay Jewish playwright in black-rimmed glasses, comes together to write a blockbuster screenplay (titled,..."

May 4, 2001 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Restaurant

"...girlfriends -- his ex and his current -- are black and Chris is white (and still suffers the sting..."

March 31, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Love Field

"...attend the funeral and pay her respects. It doesn't matter to her that her husband thinks she's crazy. She's..."

Feb. 26, 1993 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Hours and Times

"...of mutual curiosity, attraction and avoidance. Speculation. This hour-long, black-and-white featurette (the recipient of numerous awards and accolades on..."

Aug. 7, 1992 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Austin at Large: Surprise, Surprise, Surprise

Big dumb mud puddles of racism, right there beneath our feet

"...cop with the license to visit lethal force upon black people while keeping my dumb racist thoughts a secret...."

Nov. 15, 2019 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

The Art of Self-Defense

Jesse Eisenberg excels as the mouse that roars in this karate black comedy

"...that explores the ways frightened men are indoctrinated into lives of violence – would feature some cartoonishly evil hate..."

July 12, 2019 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

The Secret Garden

Neither talking down to children nor pandering to their parents, The Secret Garden functions something like a fairy tale in which the primordial and psychosexual concerns are made palpable and socially acceptable.

"...different aspects of meaning during different stages of our lives and also in the way in which primordial and..."

Aug. 20, 1993 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Notting Hill

Love blossoms between a London bookstore owner and beautiful movie star. Can this relationship survive the obvious hindrances?

"...Darjeeling or perfumey Earl Grey here, just the plain black brew, hot and light and sweet. Anna Scott (Roberts)..."

May 28, 1999 Movie Review by Hollis Chacona

Austin Musicians of Color Talk About the Pandemic's Outsized Impact on Their Communities

COVID-19 extends into all realities of Austin's pervasive inequality

"..."The realization that more Black and brown lives will be lost as a result..."

June 19, 2020 Music Feature by Kahron Spearman

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