Written in Stone

History of racism lives on in UT monuments

"...and the first native Governor of Texas) were too crowded around the fountain, and decided instead to spread them..."

May 29, 2015 News Feature by Mac McCann

Showing Black Lives Matter

Facing race then and now onstage in Pretty Fire and Hands Up Hoodies Down

"...of Albany, N.Y., encounters the overt racism of the Jim Crow South, including members of the Ku Klux Klan..."

March 13, 2015 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Final SXSW Free Concert: Ryan Bingham

Oscar-winning westerner headlines Friday at Auditorium Shores

"...Joining him are local outlaw Carson McHone, former Black Crow Jackie Greene, and Memphis scion Luther Dickinson...."

March 9, 2015 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Entertaining Angels

Skylark Lounge pianist Margaret Wright plays divine

"...As showtime closes in at the Skylark, the multicultural crowd grows. All persons, from all backgrounds, walk up or..."

Feb. 20, 2015 Music Feature by Kahron Spearman

One in a Crowd: Pioneers of African-American Cinema

Kino Lorber to curate remarkable historical document

"...textured depictions of race relations in the era of Jim Crow were critical and commercial successes...."

Feb. 6, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Lupe Fiasco: Tetsuo & Youth

Chicago MC delivers a meta-religious tome

"...Fiasco compares the current prison system to the old Jim Crow laws. A deranged “turn up” appears when he..."

Jan. 28, 2015 Music Post by Kahron Spearman

DVDanger: Youth Gone Wild

Pre-millenial teen angst, both period and retro, melds with noir

"...Turn Worse: By quoting the king of nihilist noir, Jim Thompson...."

Jan. 17, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Voter ID: Battle Lost, War Goes On

Litigants respond to SCOTUS ruling, pledge continuing challenge

"...calling the rules a poll tax and a new Jim Crow. Then on Oct. 17, the Fifth Circuit overturned..."

Oct. 18, 2014 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Fifth Circuit Lets Voter ID Stand

Appeal court says that it's too close to election to change rules

"...the state's 2011 voter ID law, comparing it to Jim Crow and a poll tax. Attorney General Greg Abbott..."

Oct. 14, 2014 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Judge Throws Out Texas Voter ID Law

Compares photo requirement to Jim Crow, poll tax

"...the act. Noting that Ramos "compared the law to Jim Crow-era policies," she said:..."

Oct. 10, 2014 News Post by Richard Whittaker

The Road to 10-1: Catching Up

Who’s in, who’s out, who’s who?

"...business class.” He’s an African-American who recalls segregation and Jim Crow, and says the city is still failing to..."

July 28, 2014 News Post by Michael King

The Plantation at Comal Bluff

Sneed House ruins tell a story beneath and behind modern Austin

"...here when slavery was still legal, and later, when Jim Crow still menaced – when race and racial relations..."

May 23, 2014 News Feature by Sam Ramos

The AggreGAYtor: May 20

What happened today in gay? Here’s your QILTBAG recap of queer news.

"...John Kerry compares homo/transphobia to Jim Crow...."

May 20, 2014 Qmmunity Post by David Estlund

The AggreGAYtor: February 24

What happened today in gay? Here’s your QILTBAG recap of queer news.

"...The effort to protect discrimination amounts to anti-gay Jim Crow. It Came from the Tubes..."

Feb. 24, 2014 Qmmunity Post by David Estlund

The AggreGAYtor: February 21

What happened today in gay? Here’s your QILTBAG recap of queer news.

"...In Arizona, now they can get you for wearing..."

Feb. 21, 2014 Qmmunity Post by David Estlund

Writers on Kennedy

What we think about when we think about JFK

"...three months but was still using his Alabama license. Jim Crow justice was swift; King was convicted and sent..."

Nov. 22, 2013 News Feature by Fred McGhee

Local Author Tim O'Brien Wins Lifetime Achievement Award

'The Things They Carried' author on life, fiction, and truth

"...country that committed genocide against the American Indian. Slavery, Jim Crow laws, Hollywood black lists. And the truth can..."

Nov. 14, 2013 Books Post by R.U. Steinberg

'Words Become Actions'

Austinites protest Jimmy Kimmel Show’s hate speech

"...the Capitol, in protest of ABC-TV and its late-night “Jimmy Kimmel Show,” after a “Kids Table” skit suggested that..."

Nov. 12, 2013 News Post by Manzhi Wu

Point Austin: Recalling Eroy Brown

Groundbreaking Texas inmate murder case reflects long fight for justice

"...shocked the prison system and marked the end of Jim Crow justice in Texas." Yet over the ensuing decades,..."

Feb. 17, 2012 News Column by Michael King

Page Two: 'Life,' the Universe, Everything

The devastating illumination of Terrence Malick's new film

"...raised in the American South during the century of Jim Crow segregation. My parents, sisters, and I were not..."

June 3, 2011 Column by Louis Black

Breaking Up Is Hard to Do

Guest blogger professor Dana Cloud answers Frank's post

"...he is coming from. Although most people in the crowd responded warmly to my remarks (which were little different..."

Oct. 27, 2010 Qmmunity Post by Kate X Messer

2010 Texas Book Festival

Isabel Wilkerson on the Great Migration

"...exodus of some 6 million African-Americans from the repressive Jim Crow South to the North and West, transpiring from..."

Oct. 15, 2010 Books Feature by Wells Dunbar

Peace Through Pie

A sweet honoring of Martin Luther King

"...14 girls, but as many as 20 to 25 crowded in during the first year. The aim of the..."

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

Letters at 3AM: Johnny and Speedy

John Ertha was the first in my experience to embody the passion, courage, mind, and rascality that could be: a man

"...He and the intense, gorgeous, platinum-blonde Darlene married when Jim Crow was in full force in a third of..."

Nov. 6, 2009 Column by Michael Ventura

Mainely, Yesterday Sucked... But Not Totally

Maine lost gay marriage for the time being. But there was progress. Honest.

"...that it wasn't public vote that abolished slavery and Jim Crow. Perhaps, but there seems to be reluctance on..."

Nov. 4, 2009 Qmmunity Post by Frank J. Rivera

Getting Creative With Constraints

AFS Documentary Tour presents the 10 Under 10 shorts program

"...the Democratic National Convention, a woman who has experienced Jim Crow and the civil rights movement and finally lives..."

May 8, 2009 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Quintessence

Quincy Jones has lived a career that would make his hero, Duke Ellington, proud

"...went to Seattle to my high school, Garfield, where Jimi Hendrix went, and Bruce Lee. I think it's the..."

March 20, 2009 Music Feature by Chase Hoffberger

The Right to Keep and Bear Arms

"...have instructed in detail where D.C. could file their post-Jim Crow ordinances. But the ruling was limited – and..."

June 30, 2008 Postmarks

Page Two: Love and Creation

An approach to the SXSW Film Festival

"...the very history and ongoing consequences of slavery and Jim Crow. It is to argue, however, that any kind..."

March 7, 2008 Column by Louis Black

David Van Os on Single-Member Districts

Texas attorney on the history of the "gentlemen’s agreement"

"...testified on behalf of the plaintiffs. Former City Councilman Jimmy Snell, the second African-American to serve on the Austin..."

Feb. 28, 2008 News Post by Wells Dunbar

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