Southwest Theatre Productions' Trade With Klan

In Donald E. Baker's new drama, the utter plainness of an Indiana small town makes its devotion to the KKK all the more shocking

"...spread. Every white person you know is in the Ku Klux Klan. The radio advertises their rallies as though..."

Jan. 31, 2020 Arts Review by Laura Jones

Best Response to Klan Rally: Ignore It

"...Dear Editor, Concerning the Ku Klux Klan rally and march to be held at..."

Nov. 4, 2005 Postmarks

BlacKkKlansman

Spike Lee's wild true-life story would be a better documentary

"...be true, like the black cop who joined the Ku Klux Klan. In 1979, Ron Stallworth of the Colorado..."

Aug. 10, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Point Austin: Beside the Point

It's a no-brainer to denounce the no-brainers

"...plaza stage as the American White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, standing in solidarity with the Texas Republican..."

Nov. 11, 2005 News Column by Wells Dunbar

On Second Thought

City will establish clear, nondiscriminatory, "objective" procedure for media credentials

"...and film producers and protesters following a November 2005 Ku Klux Klan rally at City Hall. Not only had..."

Sept. 7, 2007 News Feature by Michael King

The Best of Enemies

Unlikely alliances grow as conversation finds common ground in this historical true-life drama

"...dis-United States, it falls somewhere between Spike Lee’s recent BlacKkKlansman and Green Book in terms of its “based on..."

April 5, 2019 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Point Austin: Fattenin' Frogs for Snakes

Wave a white sheet at City Hall, and the Keystone Kops kome running

"...Angelo calling themselves the American White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan – these guys are nothing if not..."

Nov. 18, 2005 News Column by Michael King

This Ain't No Picnic: Minutemen on Patrol

The sinister legions of the 'Drug Cartel' have little to fear from the latest incarnation of border hysteria. As for the rest of us ...

"...pick up provisions, the War Wagon led A.E.'s black pickup a couple of miles past Hideaway Lakes, a popular..."

Oct. 28, 2005 News Feature by Diana Welch

Day Trips

Georgetown's Palace Theatre Guild's You Can't Do That, Dan Moody! is staged in the actual courtroom in which the play's events first took place.

"...the first successful charges brought against members of the Ku Klux Klan...."

Sept. 10, 1999 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Racist Relic Rock Removed in Lockhart

Campaign to move Confederate statue finally clicks

"...years. The monument, which has strong ties to the Ku Klux Klan, was quietly relocated to the Caldwell County..."

Dec. 24, 2021 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

Cinemapocalypse at the Alamo Ritz: Die, Nazi, Die!

Quentin Tarantino premieres Inglourious

"...and that would have been D.W. Griffith. Because the Ku Klux Klan did not exist anymore when he made..."

Aug. 16, 2009 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

KKK Takes Spotlight Away From Other Prop. 2 Backers

Fundamentalists are shocked that Klan agrees with them

"...breakfast tacos last week, Glen Maxey joked that a Ku Klux Klan rally planned in Austin on Saturday will..."

Nov. 4, 2005 News Feature by Amy Smith

With God on Their Side: The KKK Stops By

Lawsuit filed after city separates Klan from counterprotesters and excludes certain media

"...you may have heard by now, a handful of Klansmen breezed into town this past weekend to stake their..."

Nov. 11, 2005 News Feature by Diana Welch

An Unusual Pastime

Accidental Courtesy: Daryl Davis, Race & America couldn't be more timely

"...some of the country's most influential members of the Ku Klux Klan when filming his documentary Accidental Courtesy: Daryl..."

March 11, 2016 Screens Feature by Nora Ankrum

Written in Stone

History of racism lives on in UT monuments

"...war." He points out that Wilson praised the racist, pro-Ku Klux Klan film The Birth of a Nation (one..."

May 29, 2015 News Feature by Mac McCann

Top 10 City Council Moments

"...The biggest (non) story of the year – the Ku Klux Klowns come to town, to support gay-bashing Proposition..."

Jan. 6, 2006 News Feature

Killers of the Flower Moon

Scorsese at his best for a true tale of hideous heartland crimes

"...1920s they became the target of petty criminals and stickup men, but worse and more insidiously by William King..."

Oct. 20, 2023 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Death Watch: Shocking Evidence of a Thoroughly Racist Trial

Of course the state still wants to kill this prisoner

"...a note on his front door referring to the Ku Klux Klan...."

Feb. 10, 2023 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

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

Another distorted salvo from Dinesh D’Souza

"...championed segregation and Jim Crow and helped birth the Ku Klux Klan while doing everything they could to disenfranchise..."

July 22, 2016 Movie Review by Louis Black

Free State of Jones

Matthew McConaughey stars in pic about little-known Civil War event

"...politicians, black voter-registration drives, and the rise of the Ku Klux Klan. Ross’ attempt to connect Knight’s story to..."

June 24, 2016 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Django Unchained

As entertaining and subversive as Django Unchained is, Tarantino's latest also suffers from a certain slackness.

"...well as a mash-up between James Brown and Tupac Shakur) accompany the film’s action, which is set in the..."

Dec. 28, 2012 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Group Says Prop. 2 Could Make Straight Marriage Illegal

And the Klan supports it, too!

"...On a somewhat related note, the Ku Klux Klan will hold a rally Nov. 5 in..."

Oct. 28, 2005 News Feature by Amy Smith

Page Two

In the beginning, we kept the Chronicle going mostly out of sheer perversity and stubbornness; 23 years later, it looks like there was more to it than that

"...from the John Birch Society, the Minutemen, and the Ku Klux Klan, as well as various anti-labor, racist, anti-Semitic,..."

Sept. 3, 2004 Column by Louis Black

Postmarks

Waring Responds

"...start somewhere. Now let's talk about replacing those damn pickup trucks on the hike and bike trail with some..."

Oct. 17, 1997 Column

"Vincent Valdez: The City" at the Blanton

The artist's epic portrait of Klanspeople is all the more frightening for the mundane character of its subjects

"...gathering. We see a group winding down from a Klan meeting. We've interrupted them. The painting is realistic, done..."

Sept. 14, 2018 Arts Review by Melany Jean

"Tammie Rubin: Before I Knew You, I Missed You"

Rubin's porcelain figures are both sympathetic and menacing, referencing the African-American experience through cones resembling KKK hoods

"...result is a dramatic and ominous reference to the Ku Klux Klan. Rubin explains that it was the 1915..."

Nov. 11, 2016 Arts Review by Sam Anderson-Ramos

A Long Activist Legacy Survives on the Eastside

Holding on to El Barrio

"...later, Hernandez was again beaten by police, when the Ku Klux Klan marched down Congress Avenue in February of..."

Nov. 20, 2020 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

Hate Crimes and Punishment

The Gay Debate

"...used the FHA to sue two factions of the Ku Klux Klan after they tried to intimidate African-Americans who..."

Sept. 11, 1998 News Feature by Janet Heimlich

Public Notice: In the Name of Fairness

Times change, and so do schools

"...Act – the period roughly coinciding with the "Third Klan" revival across the South, the last stand for Jim..."

March 2, 2018 News Column by Nick Barbaro

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Our readers talk back.

"...News, Nov. 11]! You and your friends in the Ku Klux Klan scored a major victory for the Antichrist..."

Nov. 18, 2005 Column

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