Trumpet Colossus Kenny Dorham Towers Alongside the Jazz Gods

The Austin musician stands alone in showing up Miles Davis in his autobiography

"...freedom as an antidote to the sick norms of Jim Crow Texas...."

Sept. 14, 2018 Music Feature by Kahron Spearman

The Touchdowns That Changed Texas

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

"...in Mississippi until he was 8 years old, where Jim Crow's immoralities stained his memories. Sadowski said, "He witnessed..."

Aug. 31, 2018 Screens Feature by Kahron Spearman

Public Notice: The Battle Is Joined

Land use policy will define the November Council election

"...wealthy racists trying to preserve their estates and perpetuate Jim Crow. And it's precisely because the current Council has..."

Aug. 24, 2018 News Column by Nick Barbaro

Beto O'Rourke and Ethan Hawke in Conversation

Two Texans discuss politics, fear, and the power of Willie Nelson to bring us back together

"...impressed. It felt a little like meeting a 2018 Jimmy Stewart. Tall, humble, sincere, and funny, he seems like..."

Aug. 17, 2018 News Feature by Ethan Hawke

What Home for This Home Depot?

Abandoned St. Johns site inching closer to redevelopment

"...of the area, originally developed as a byproduct of Jim Crow. While she appreciates the possibility of a park..."

June 8, 2018 News Feature by Nina Hernandez

Adding to Austin's Asian-American Cinema

Huay-Bing Law on his new short "June," now on HBO

"...and here you're thrust into this situation where the Jim Crow laws are in effect, and you don't know..."

May 25, 2018 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Fusebox Festival Review: (Re)current Unrest

This dance grapples with cultural appropriation and racism

"...hoods became silencing masks. The points of Lady Liberty’s crown jutted out like daggers. Chants distorted into interrogations. Laughter..."

April 24, 2018 Arts Post by Jonelle Seitz

Mary Moody Northen Theatre's Violet

In this moving production, a young woman learns the nature of true beauty and true love

"...mines of race, class, and caste in the newly post-Jim Crow South, and Violet learns to see past other..."

April 20, 2018 Arts Review by T. Lynn Mikeska

Black Art Matters Puts Artists of Color in the Spotlight

Austin Justice Coalition's exhibition opens Feb. 17

"...up: After hundreds of years of slavery, failed reconstruction, Jim Crow, redlining, and other racist housing policies, the average..."

Feb. 16, 2018 Arts Post by Amani Newton

Black Panther Comic Writer Evan Narcisse on Heroes and Afro-Futurism

From Austin to Wakanda

"...didn't have by virtue of the Middle Passage and Jim Crow. It's a tricky thing to trace your past..."

Feb. 16, 2018 Screens Feature by Moisés Chiullán

Based on Failed Policies

"...King points to floods and the tower shooting and Jim Crow which were all awful. And perhaps he's right..."

Nov. 16, 2017 Postmarks

Point Austin: What to Do About CodeNEXT

Opponents offering plenty of fear but precious few solutions

"...droughts, the UT Tower massacre, the 1928 Master Plan, Jim Crow, that little dustup from 1861-1865 …..."

Nov. 17, 2017 News Column by Michael King

Dueling Petitions on CodeNEXT

Sign here, sign there, sign everywhere

"...current land use code as reinforcing segregation and a “Jim Crow” development history. The petitioners would allow greater density..."

Sept. 12, 2017 News Post by Michael King

Texas' Big, Bad Week for Voter Suppression and Gerrymandering

Within two days, courts reject second election map, voter ID bill

"...little celebration. State party chair Gilberto Hinojosa wrote that “Jim Crow-era tactics have kept Texas Republicans in power. From..."

Aug. 25, 2017 News Post by Richard Whittaker

UT Took Down Some Confederate Statues On Sunday Night

Lee, Johnston, Reagan out; Gov. Hogg getting moved

"...by what they symbolize. Erected during the period of Jim Crow laws and segregation, the statues represent the subjugation..."

Aug. 21, 2017 News Post by Chase Hoffberger

Point Austin: Fireworks for the Fourth

Reflections on Independence Day from Frederick Douglass

"...slavery was almost immediately replaced with the neo-slavery of Jim Crow – still memorialized in monuments and institutions in..."

July 7, 2017 News Column by Michael King

Pink Elephant Puts Black LGBTQ Artists Center Stage

Austin's queer hip-hop fest returns for year two

"...black soldiers to find solace and community during the Jim Crow era. It quickly became a sanctuary for black..."

March 31, 2017 Qmmunity Post by Courtney Naquin

Bill of the Week: The War on the War of Northern Aggression

Mutual respect for those who fought for the North and South shall rise again

"...origins date back to 1931, during the throes of Jim Crow, when Texas legislators codified honoring non-Texan Confederate Army..."

March 3, 2017 News Feature by Lindsay Stafford Mader

Top Books to Make Our Lone Star Shine

Joe O'Connell's top reads of 2016 reveal new depths of humanitity in their Texas characters

"...into Mexican businessman Guillermo Eliseo to escape post-Civil War Jim Crow laws and compete as a truly "free" man...."

Dec. 30, 2016 Arts Feature by Joe O'Connell

Austin Film Festival Review: Two Trains Runnin'

Freedom Summer and the blues align in this informative doc

"...voter-registration drives and the movement to end the country’s Jim Crow laws, another cultural train sallied forth: the reclamation..."

Oct. 19, 2016 Screens Post by Marjorie Baumgarten

Everybody vs. Injustice

Using hip-hop to build a just city

"...barriers that have been created by disastrous legislation like Jim Crow laws or problematic city planners like Robert Moses...."

Oct. 13, 2016 News Post by Annamarya Scaccia

SXSW Eco: A Better City Built to a Hip-Hop Beat

How architecture can be used to challenge injustice

"...front entrance of homes, even their own, during the Jim Crow era. And it's an imposed behavior that permeates..."

Oct. 7, 2016 News Feature by Annamarya Scaccia

Capital City Black Film Festival Grows by Leaps and Bounds

Four-day event showcases African-American experiences in cinema

"...eventually became a buddy film about two friends from Jim Crow-era Mississippi, which manages to tightrope an intriguing mix..."

Aug. 26, 2016 Screens Feature by Kahron Spearman

Ted Cruz Refuses to Endorse Donald Trump

Texas senator tosses matches (and himself) on RNC dumpster fire

"...across the Quicken Loans Arena, and asked the assembled crowd, "Are you nuts?"..."

July 21, 2016 News Post by Richard Whittaker

We're Still Here

Assessing the continuing black Austin experience

"...With Jim Crow-styled redlining already under way, 1928 saw the arrival..."

Jan. 8, 2016 News Feature by Kahron Spearman

Council: Choosing Sides

An estimated 9,000 lots will become eligible to build ADUs

"...of ADU bans as, in part, the heritage of Jim Crow laws, and told Council, "Supply is not the..."

Nov. 27, 2015 News Feature by Michael King

Wendell Pierce's The Wind in the Reeds

In Wendell Pierce's memoir The Wind in the Reeds, Godot and Treme help transform post-Katrina New Orleans

"...for those who were denied insurance because of segregation, Jim Crow laws, couldn't get a burial plot, redlined areas...."

Oct. 16, 2015 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Beside the Point: Absence of Evidence Is Evidence of Ignorance

As we become submerged in factless policy-making, a request to return to reason

"...failed to include the Ku Klux Klan and the Jim Crow laws; racial segregation is only briefly mentioned. Ignoring..."

July 24, 2015 News Feature by Mary Tuma

News Roundup: Tragedies and Textbooks

Another officer-involved shooting; Waco shootout update

"...Civil War, while the Ku Klux Klan and the Jim Crow laws never appear during or after Reconstruction; additionally,..."

July 13, 2015 News Post by the News Staff

Point Austin: Racism and Heroism

Reflecting on the Charleston massacre

"...they couldn't restore the Confederacy itself – to maintain Jim Crow and segregation. Should it all be thrown down?..."

June 26, 2015 News Column by Michael King

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