Joan Baez Gots to Ramble

Famed folk activist says fare thee well to touring

"...For starters, her soprano sewed together the Civil Rights movement. Any look back on Joan Baez’s 60..."

April 17, 2019 Music Post by Elise Barbin

The Touchdowns That Changed Texas

Civil rights and sports mix in Breaking Down Barriers: The C.R. Roberts Story

"...the bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama. That gave the Civil Rights movement, which had long been in action without..."

Aug. 31, 2018 Screens Feature by Kahron Spearman

LBJ Library at 50: An Interview With Mark Updegrove

The Library's director from 2009 to 2017 on LBJ's evolving legacy

"...tragic failures in Vietnam toward the landmark achievements in civil rights and social progress...."

Aug. 26, 2021 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Rebels With a Cause

Compelling documentary about the Sixties" Students for a Democratic Society includes commentary from such leaders as Tom Hayden and Austin's Alice Embree and Jeff Shero Nightbyrd.

"...her head, her face lined with roadmaps to the Movement. In any other historical documentary, this sort of onscreen..."

March 2, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Four in 10 UT Protesters Arrested Weren’t UT Affiliated. Were They “Outside Agitators”?

What UT calls outside disruption, students call a movement

"...as outsiders and disrupters, protesters deem teammates in a movement opposing genocide in Gaza. (While mainstream outlets including Fox..."

May 10, 2024 News Feature by Lina Fisher

How the Filibuster Has Already Undermined Democracy

The recent attacks on reproductive rights reveal another reason to let the filibuster burn

"...• Most perniciously, that the filibuster protects the rights of minorities. In the U.S. Senate, the filibuster has..."

May 6, 2022 News Feature by Michael King

LBJ Summit Returns to “Race in America”

Five years after landmark civil rights event, there's plenty to talk about

"...Museum marked the 50th anniversary of LBJ's signing the Civil Rights Act of 1964 with a landmark summit featuring,..."

April 5, 2019 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Two by Pratibha Parmar: A Place of Rage, Khush

"...on the successes and failures of the black power movement of the 1960s, their identities as feminists and women,..."

Feb. 21, 1992 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Desegregation of Austin's Movie Theatres

A history of the stand-in movement

"...The wintry inauguration to their "stand-in" movement in 1960 followed a fertile springtime of swiftly sprouting..."

Dec. 4, 2015 Screens Feature by Jordan Buckley

Cesar Chavez

The United Farm Workers leader and civil rights activist who managed to get housewives to stop buying grapes is the subject of this biopic.

"...good biopic of Cesar Chavez, the inspirational labor leader, civil rights activist, and co-founder of the United Farm Workers..."

March 28, 2014 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

All the Way

In Zach Theatre's staging of this epic political drama about LBJ, the fight for civil rights feels particularly urgent

"...remove of a half-century – during testimony given by civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer to the Credentials Committee..."

May 1, 2015 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Where Do the Queers Go from Here?

Texas LGBTQ civil rights activists face a wild ride forward

"...federal marriage ban. How do these events impact the movement for LGBTQ equality? Find out now at the Gay..."

June 26, 2013 Qmmunity Post

Creating Change: USDA Protects Gender ID

Saturday at the conference: Dr. Joe Leonard, Jr.

"...that the USDA also houses the largest office of civil rights in the U.S...."

Feb. 2, 2014 Qmmunity Post by Abe Louise Young

UPDATED: Take It To a Jury: Judge Rules in Carter Shooting

Conclusions similar to those in confidential city memo

"...Byron Carter, clearing the way for the Carter family's civil rights suit to proceed to trial...."

May 22, 2013 News Post by Jordan Smith

UT Distances from Regnerus

Michigan marriage equality testimony at issue

"...court to be "prudent" in granting gays and lesbians civil rights, his colleagues sought to distance themselves from his..."

March 4, 2014 News Post by Brandon Watson

Austin Film Festival Review: Two Trains Runnin'

Freedom Summer and the blues align in this informative doc

"...South to work in the voter-registration drives and the movement to end the country’s Jim Crow laws, another cultural..."

Oct. 19, 2016 Screens Post by Marjorie Baumgarten

Mavis Staples: “Still Here”

Selma’s “living witness” marks anniversary at the Paramount

"...the pivotal first Selma march that helped galvanize the Civil Rights movement, Mavis Staples emerged on the Paramount Theatre..."

March 9, 2015 Music Post by Doug Freeman

Point Austin: Stayed on Freedom

Considering the LBJ legacy

"...obvious way to consider the legacy of the 1964 Civil Rights Act (initiated by John F. Kennedy; strengthened, lobbied..."

April 11, 2014 News Column by Michael King

MLK/FBI

The Feds' surveillance campaign of the civil rights icon placed in new context

"...He has become arguably the preeminent documentarian of the civil rights era, starting as producer on the epic Eyes..."

Jan. 15, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

People Get Ready

Excerpt from Kevin Phinney's 'Souled American'

"...the nation, a broad alliance of black and white equal-rights groups wanted it known they were up to the..."

Oct. 7, 2005 Music Feature by Kevin Phinney

Highlights From Gail Collins' Lecture

NYTimes ed delivered the 2013 Liz Carpenter Lecture on Monday night

"...the Present, the talk described the transformation of women's rights, especially pertaining to the workforce and civil issues...."

Sept. 10, 2013 Books Post by Jessi Cape

Making History, Part One

Playwright Robert Schenkkan on bringing LBJ to the stage in 'All the Way'

"...American history. Everything shifts after this. It's the landmark civil rights bill. It's the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution. The..."

Aug. 17, 2012 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

In Memory

"...-- civil rights freedom song..."

Jan. 1, 1999 Screens Feature by Paul Stekler

A Singer Called Chunky, a Song Called Freedom

Doc on the musician/activist screens free at Cine Las Americas

"...that I thought were an important reflection of the civil right movement, but I wasn't exactly sure what I..."

May 4, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Doubling Down

In The Great Society, playwright Robert Schenkkan and his subject, LBJ, both gamble big

"...just come off a winning hand that by all rights shouldn't have paid off so richly. The cards were..."

Oct. 10, 2014 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Life and Times of Gus Garcia

City Council Member Gus Garcia retires after more than 30 years of public service

"...member of the 1967 Human Relations Commission during the Civil Rights movement. In 1972, he became the first Hispanic..."

June 2, 2000 News Feature by Daryl Slusher

The Hightower Report: Moral Monday on the Move

Moral Monday on the move

"...a powerful symbol of courage and defiance in the Civil Rights Movement of the Sixties by simply refusing to..."

Jan. 24, 2014 News Column by Jim Hightower

Navasky & Barsamian

Former editor of The Nation discusses the role of the alternative press

"...independent and alternative news available today indicates an "unprecedented movement in American history."..."

April 7, 2006 News Feature by Nora Ankrum

Hillary’s America: The Secret History of the Democratic Party

Another distorted salvo from Dinesh D’Souza

"...history of the Democrats, the pro-slavery party before the Civil War and then, for the next century, racist advocates..."

July 22, 2016 Movie Review by Louis Black

Grim History

Author traces Texas prison system from its roots in plantation slavery

"...privatized, for-profit system that replaced plantation slavery after the Civil War and survived into the 20th century. The book's..."

Aug. 20, 2010 News Feature by Michael King

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