Peace Through Pie

A sweet honoring of Martin Luther King

"...Food section be the first to salute the slain civil rights leader with a menu of his favorite foods...."

Jan. 15, 2010 Food Feature by Toni Tipton-Martin

Point Austin: Some Spare Change on Panhandling

Austin tries to balance street-level charity and public order

"...solicit their fellow human beings for help." For similar civil rights reasons – arguably, a request for money is..."

Oct. 9, 2009 News Column by Michael King

Naked City

News briefs from Austin, the region, and beyond

"...(1962, '64, '68) and helped mobilize the progressive Democratic movement in Texas, died Sept. 23 at his home in..."

Oct. 2, 2009 News Feature

Judy Shepard Reads at BookPeople

The gay rights activist will read from her new book, The Meaning of Matthew

"...lesbians are more prominent in the media, marriage and civil union laws in a growing number of states have..."

Sept. 28, 2009 Books Post by Matthew Patin

Unfortunately, There Is Nothing Simple About Racism

"...of the most thoughtful pieces about race, racism, and civil rights that I've read in many years. Perhaps my..."

Feb. 1, 2008 Postmarks

Naked City

"...has always been at the forefront of the green-building movement, from the leaders at Austin Energy to the folks..."

Dec. 7, 2007 News Feature

Point Austin: Obama Mania

For the heady moment, everything he do b-be funky

"...Illinois, more professorial than grandiloquent, could indeed "galvanize a movement for change"; that he could take his place in..."

March 2, 2007 News Column by Michael King

Improvising Every Second

The secret history of Austin Circle of Theaters director Latifah Taormina, from Second City to the Committee and beyond

"...of what the era is remembered for: peace and civil rights rallies, police harassment ("Alan would get arrested, and..."

March 10, 2006 Arts Feature by Lowell Bartholomee

The Man Who Cried I Am

In this powerful, largely autobiographical novel that was originally published in 1967, award-winning author and journalist Williams crafts the story of the irrepressible 'Negro' writer Max Reddick as he fights to make a difference in the world of the press and the letters

"...from World War II into the cauldron of the civil rights era...."

Sept. 17, 2004 Books Review by Jay Trachtenberg

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...by FBI agents has peaked. Meanwhile, the number of civil rights referrals has dropped nearly 25%, and the number..."

Aug. 20, 2004 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

The Myth of Reagan

"...to infiltrate our society through Bush and the right-wing movement. These heartless people, who include the Young Republicans of..."

June 22, 2004 Postmarks

A Land Shaded in Melancholy Hues

The Austin Museum of Art exhibition "Visualizing the Blues: Images of the American South, 1862-1999" connects the blues aurally and visually, and reveals how the South, like the blues, is full of contradictions: dark and woeful yet beauteous and jubilant.

"...perpetuated by one race on another. Danny Lyons' The Movement, 1964, depicting a white cop who has a black..."

March 8, 2002 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Lone Star Panthers

A profile of Austin's New Black Panther Party

"...a racist demagogue. The Southern Poverty Law Center, a civil-rights litigation group, monitors the New Black Panther Party as..."

Dec. 7, 2001 News Feature by Lauri Apple

Book 'Em

Recent Picks From the Summer Crop

"...through a concern for "ecology, the equality of women, civil rights, the anti-war movement, new age health, quality of..."

Aug. 24, 2001 Books Feature by Dave Oliphant

Actors of the World, Unite

"...Given the rise of the trade union movement across Europe and the United States in the 19th..."

June 9, 2000 Arts Feature by Robi Polgar

Postmarks

Benefits of Frankenfoods

"...Dear Editor(s) There is movement at City Hall to use the light rail and..."

Aug. 20, 1999 Column

Tragedias de la Frontera

"...At some point, Hernández saw movement in the bushes. Assuming it was perhaps a coyote..."

May 28, 1999 Music Feature by Lee Nichols

Naked City

Off the Desk:

"...to parents, and to allow students more freedom of movement between public schools. Jay Greene, UT assistant professor of..."

March 19, 1999 News Feature

The Primary Source

"...Grey Ghost photograph by Diane Watts The civil rights acts passed under the Johnson administration's Great Society..."

Feb. 26, 1999 Music Feature by Christopher Hess

I Wanna Take You Higher

"...six decades later fuel the fires of a youth movement unlike any before it, not only in the trend-heavy..."

Dec. 4, 1998 Books Feature by Simon Reynolds

Needs More Color

Progressive Papers Grapple With Chronic Complaint

"...thought about every issue on the political spectrum, including civil rights, but the integration of their own newsrooms is..."

Nov. 28, 1997 News Feature by Lee Nichols

June 18, 1996: Aguascalientes in La Realidad, Chiapas

"...political space that had been opened for the indigenous movement in particular is sort of an accordion, sometimes it..."

July 12, 1996 News Feature

Behind Enemy Lines at ALEC's Right-Wing Policy Conference

Activists say the American Legislative Exchange Council backs corporate interests over people

"...Your Ground" gun laws and measures that limit workers' rights and health care access. With Reaganomics icon Arthur Laffer..."

Aug. 30, 2019 News Feature by Mary Tuma

At Close Range

The Men Behind the Texas Militia Myth

"...things I discovered when I began investigating the militia movement in Texas last summer, and they surprised me into..."

Oct. 27, 1995 News Feature

Stopping the Nonsense

The No Nonsense campaign gears up to derail the national anti-gay crusade

"...battle against a constitutional ban on same-sex marriage and civil unions, former Austin state Rep. Glen Maxey is remarkably..."

Oct. 7, 2005 News Feature by Amy Smith

Letters at 3AM

It's time for the American South to reject its "rebel" hypocrisy of states rights and atone for the sins of the slave economy of the Confederacy.

"...the South by the Montgomery bus boycott and the movement that followed. So revise the figures to 1955: 73..."

Feb. 4, 2000 Column by Michael Ventura

Page Two: Variation on a Theme

Following the logical threads of a revolution

"...revolution has succeeded. Since this is speculative, whatever revolutionary movement you prefer, the one of your dearest held dreams,..."

July 24, 2009 Column by Louis Black

Postmarks

"...character in this way is inappropriate, if not downright uncivilized...."

Oct. 23, 1998 Column

Inside Out ... Outside In

The growing influence of fringe movements on City Hall reflects either a healthy populism or the implosion of civic engagement

"...fluoridation and thyroid problems for his liking. Or a civil liberties activist wondering if the government should really be..."

March 2, 2012 News Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

June 18, 1996: Aguascalientes in La Realidad, Chiapas

"...political space that had been opened for the indigenous movement in particular is sort of an accordion -- sometimes..."

July 12, 1996 News Feature

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