Inside the Eastside Family Funeral Home Running Since Jim Crow

The Villaseñor family: A life’s work in death

Oct. 11, 2024 Features Feature by Neha Kondaveeti

Mobley Confronts “James Crow” in Visual Single

One-man-band also launches a Curbside Tour

"...the musician and filmmaker continues the story with “James Crow.”..."

Sept. 16, 2020 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Jim Caligiuri Exit Interview

Ten minutes, 20 questions, and 20-plus years of Americana chronicles

"...March 31, the day before Jim Caligiuri left Austin for California, we said goodbye outside..."

April 13, 2017 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Taste of Black Austin: Joi Chevalier Talks Green Book

Honor the story of African American travelers during Jim Crow

"...In Jim Crow America, the threat of racism was around every..."

June 14, 2019 Food Feature by Sydney Greene

Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am

A rare journey behind the words of America's poet laureate

"...Greenfield-Sanders sidesteps both by tracing Morrison’s remarkable rise from post-Jim Crow America (and all that that entailed) to become..."

July 5, 2019 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Rosenwald

Chicago-based, Jewish philanthropist Julius Rosenwald is profiled

"...fortune building schools for impoverished southern blacks during the Jim Crow era (including one in Lockhart) is dependably fascinating...."

Oct. 9, 2015 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Honeydripper

John Sayles’ new drama is about life in a destitute African-American cotton-farming town in Jim Crow-era Alabama and the music that gave the region its mythology.

"...about life in a destitute African-American cotton-farming town in Jim Crow-era Alabama and the music that gave it its..."

Feb. 1, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

On the Lege

Voter-ID bills protect voters ... by keeping them away from polls

"...the citizenship of new voter registrants. House Democratic leader Jim Dunnam, in an impassioned floor speech before the vote,..."

May 4, 2007 News Column by Amy Smith

The Correspondence

Austin writer Jim Lewis on how things came together in his new novel and on his current assignment in the Congo. Roger Gathman relays.

"...Perhaps it is a sign of the times that Jim Lewis is the first author I've ever interviewed in..."

Aug. 1, 2003 Books Feature by Roger Gathman

Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie

"...Directed by: Jim Mallon. Starring: Jim Mallon, Trace Beaulieu, Michael J. Nelson,..."

April 19, 1996 Movie Review by Alison Macor

ACL Preview: Jidenna

Full, uncut Q&A with a true G

"...of free blacks. As conversation reveals, he’s no empty Jim Crow-era suit, either...."

Oct. 8, 2015 Music Post by Thomas Fawcett

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

Another distorted salvo from Dinesh D’Souza

"...for the next century, racist advocates of segregation and Jim Crow laws. D’Souza by omission, distortion, and selective inclusion..."

July 22, 2016 Movie Review by Louis Black

Reflections

SXSW 2000 Film Festival and Conference

"...From Swastika to Jim CrowDir: Lori Cheatle; Co-Dir/Ed: Martin D. Taub; Prod: Steven..."

March 17, 2000 Screens Feature by Clay Smith

ACL Fest 2015 Sunday Interview: Jidenna

2015 Jidenna meets 1973 Fela Kuti

"...the antebellum South, but it's heavily inspired by the Jim Crow era. I wanted to remind myself and others..."

Oct. 9, 2015 Music Feature by Thomas Fawcett

Capitol Chronicle

Beneath the partisan rancor over re-redistricting boils a fight over minority rights.

"...Return to Jim Crow Those elementary but real distinctions help explain why..."

July 11, 2003 News Column by Michael King

SPAMARAMA: The Movie

This Austin-made companion piece to the event blends truth and fiction in a quasi-documentary that purports to explain how SPAMARAMA all began.

"...appearances by local icons such as Kinky Friedman, Alvin Crow, Sammy Allred, Guy Juke, Molly Ivins, and Jim Franklin..."

April 4, 1997 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Trumpet Constant Ephraim Owens Won’t Be Rushed

New Austin Music Hall of Fame inductee substitutes kindness and ubiquity for a back catalog

"...that is. Generally, he's on the road, backing Sheryl Crow, Mumford & Sons, or contributing to combustible blues-rock juggernaut..."

April 7, 2017 Music Feature by Kahron Spearman

Austin Elders: Meet Guitarist and Defense Attorney Bobby Earl Smith

From professional musician to professional defender of musicians

"...of the San Angelo school board, where they took Jim Crow head-on by leading a unanimous vote to make..."

May 24, 2024 News Feature by Oscar Rodriguez

Nickel Boys

Experimental adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s 2019 Pulitzer winner

"...Black boys – in so-called reform schools across the Jim Crow South were acts of absolute horror. So, in..."

Jan. 10, 2025 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Opinion: With Elections Looming, Texas Should Expand the Right to Vote

The laws that deny voting rights to people due to a felony conviction have no place in modern America

"...modern America. These laws have their roots in racist Jim Crow laws that sought to suppress the Black vote...."

July 26, 2024 Column by Robert Lilly

After DEI Cuts, This Sixth-Gen Austinite Is Losing Access to UT

“It feels like Jim Crow”

"...been taken away,” Arnold said. “And it feels like Jim Crow.”..."

April 5, 2024 News Post by Maggie Quinlan

Origin

Ava DuVernay's plainly spoken look at the underpinnings of bigotry

"...stunned by evidence the Nazis took inspiration from America’s Jim Crow laws. Trying to synthesize all her research, she..."

Jan. 19, 2024 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Max Roach: The Drum Also Waltzes

A documentary fitting for the groundbreaking jazz drummer

"...artist, a Black man who made his bones in Jim Crow’s America, tick...."

Oct. 6, 2023 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Local and National Gifts for the Politically Minded

Goodwill to all and coal for a few

"...the celebrated poet. Modern classic Michelle Alexander's The New Jim Crow is also on the list. While Anne Frank's..."

Dec. 2, 2022 News Feature by Maggie Quinlan

Till

Oddly glossy version of the quest for justice for Emmett Till

"...murder helped galvanize a civil rights movement in the Jim Crow South and reenergized the mission of the NAACP...."

Nov. 4, 2022 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Jazz Fest: A New Orleans Story

Get a stage-side view of one of the great music festivals

"...had first been consulted in the early Sixties, when Jim Crow made an integrated event impossible. After a decade..."

June 3, 2022 Movie Review by Michael King

Dems Dig In for a Long Stay in D.C.

Quorum-breakers hone message, try to dodge COVID

"...about the need for congressional action to turn back "Jim Crow 2.0." But the COVID-19 outbreak among them, while..."

July 23, 2021 News Feature by Kimberly Reeves

Texas Dems Take the Voting Rights Fight to D.C.

Breaking quorum again, lawmakers leave state to thwart Abbott's restrictive bill

"...Texas Democrats refer to the GOP's efforts as a "Jim Crow assault" or "Jim Crow 2.0." Rep. James Talarico,..."

July 16, 2021 News Feature by Kimberly Reeves

Voting Rights Action

Texas Dems storm the Capitol (peacefully!)

"...For the crowd and the dozens of speakers, the Texas House Dems..."

June 25, 2021 News Feature by Clara Ence Morse

Williamson County Residents Organize to Remove Confederate Monument

Meanwhile the Texas Legislature tries to block monument removals

"...or immediately thereafter – but from 1916, during the Jim Crow era of racist backlash against legal rights for..."

May 7, 2019 News Post by Michael King

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