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Oct. 23, 2018 Postmarks
Rename Austin? Not Likely.
City name not going anywhere anytime soon
"...readers that "Austin considers renaming city over ties to slavery," and Newsweek wrote "Austin Considering Renaming City to Depart..."
Aug. 3, 2018 News Feature by Mary Tuma
Spectrum Theatre Company's Juneteenth Chronicles
With this play, Crystal Bird Caviel honors ancestors who were slaves and her colleague, the late Dr. Billy F. Harden
"...their experiences recorded so future generations could learn what slavery in this country was like directly from those who..."
June 15, 2018 Arts Feature by Robert Faires
Point Austin: Racism and Heroism
Reflecting on the Charleston massacre
"...to the ground because its worshippers worked to end slavery. When there were laws banning all-black church gatherings, they..."
June 26, 2015 News Column by Michael King
How Not to 'Stop Patriarchy'
New York group has a curious way of "helping"
"...(e.g., "freedom ride" and "female enslavement") and thereby minimizing slavery. Sarah Tuttle of the abortion assistance group, the Lilith..."
Aug. 15, 2014 News Feature by Mary Tuma
Letters at 3AM: So Big Deal, Hemingway
Will Huck Finn be a valuable and immortal American archetype in the future?
"...a great novel written by an African-American about American slavery. Beloved is that novel...."
July 25, 2014 Column by Michael Ventura
An Actor and an Übermensch
Tishuan Scott connects the dots between Nietzsche and his award-winning turn in civil war drama 'The Retrieval'
"...about the psychological and emotional toll the institution of slavery took on everyone involved – the regret, betrayal, despair..."
May 2, 2014 Screens Feature by Josh Rosenblatt
Politics Gift Guide
For the person who has everything but still could use another thing
"...Book Reco The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery by Eric Foner (448 pp., W.W. Norton & Company,..."
Dec. 2, 2011 News Feature by Richard Whittaker
Page Two: Kings of Mean
The worst legacy of this administration is the terrible behavior it fostered in its citizens
"...Those who shared the dream worked to end slavery, to advance public education, to earn women and minorities..."
Feb. 1, 2008 Column by Louis Black
The Miller's Tale
Swinging across the century with Ernie Mae Miller, 'a little blues, a little bawdy'
"...great-grandfather's name was Willis. That was in Tennessee, in slavery times. When my grandfather was born in 1853, he..."
July 6, 2007 Music Feature by Margaret Moser
Take Me to the River
Rock & Roll Books
"...religious songs, "spirituals," which they'd sung in secrecy during slavery, and tour, putting on concerts to benefit Fisk? An..."
Dec. 29, 2000 Books Feature by Ed Ward
A Joycean Riff of Race
Juneteenth
"...people were brought out of Africa to suffer under slavery, becoming "eyeless, tongueless, drumless, danceless, songless, hornless, soundless, sightless,..."
June 18, 1999 Books Feature by Mark Busby
Postmarks
"...in Christianity results from the end of Biblically approved slavery by the eighth amendment in 1865. Silly me! I..."
Oct. 2, 1998 Column
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Turner Is Worthy
"...in Christianity results from the end of Biblically approved slavery by the eighth amendment in 1865. Silly me! I..."
Sept. 25, 1998 Column
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Warren Responds
"...instances are a result of a country built upon slavery, greed, genocide, and total lack of respect for what..."
Aug. 21, 1998 Column
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Chronicle Kills Poster Art
"...She further states that white males today gain from slavery whilst blacks are still harmed. Hey, slavery is as..."
Sept. 26, 1997 Column
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Brown Right To Fight
"...the nefarious nature of white affirmative action -- from slavery to Jim Crow to social and economic injustices of..."
Sept. 19, 1997 Column
She Is Conann
Barbaric vision of how aging means eating your own youth.
"...Conann (here, Duburq) vows revenge as she’s taken into slavery. But Rainer prophesizes that “who refuses to embrace the..."
Feb. 2, 2024 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki
Origin
Ava DuVernay's plainly spoken look at the underpinnings of bigotry
"...Discontents, which explores the commonalities in America’s history of slavery and post-Reconstruction racism, the centuries-long subjugation of Dalits in..."
Jan. 19, 2024 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones
American Fiction
Cord Jefferson's literary comedy lets the Black middle class shine
"...and its history, always centering on poverty, drugs, or slavery. For him, this phenomenon is personified by bestselling author..."
Dec. 15, 2023 Movie Review by Rod Machen
The Amazing Maurice
Can this tale of magical rodents beat the Pratchett adaptation curse?
"...on Southern racists by selling Gossett's free man into slavery over and over again. Here, it's Maurice convincing credulous..."
Feb. 3, 2023 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Marvel's Afrofuturist paradise goes to war with the world
"...ravaging of Africa didn't stop with the end of slavery). Yet that bridge was also severed with the tragic..."
Nov. 11, 2022 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker
Bullock Museum Cancels "Forget the Alamo" Program Under Pressure
Right-wing outrage scuttles writers' virtual event (for now)
"...echoes the New York Times' 1619 Project, centered on slavery, but intends to rebut it; as 1619 Project creator..."
July 1, 2021 News Post by Mike Clark-Madison
SXSW Film Review: Who We Are: A Chronicle of Racism in America
Jeffery Robinson's captivating lecture on America's shared legacy
"...a trial lawyer) have effectively ignored the history of slavery and its ongoing legacy of white supremacy and institutionalized..."
March 24, 2021 Screens Post by Michael King
Council Recap: A Not-Just-Symbolic Promise to Lift Up Black Austin
Apologies and remedies for a long legacy of oppression
"...before the Council vote, “[Black Austinites] are still in slavery. We’re in economic slavery and we deal with police..."
March 5, 2021 News Post by Austin Sanders
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
In her second book, the author of The Warmth of Other Suns examines and breaks down the unacknowledged social structure baked into our country
"..."infrastructure of our divisions," how through the institution of slavery we established starkly different expectations about the way white..."
Nov. 13, 2020 Arts Feature by Rosalind Faires
Antebellum
Time-mangling racism allegory can’t be saved by its good intentions
"...and this year that honor was bestowed on mysterious slavery drama Antebellum. The pitch – Janelle Monáe seemingly traveling..."
Sept. 18, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker
A Celebration of Tradition and Change in Miss Juneteenth
Writer/director Channing Godfrey Peoples gives Black Texans back their crown
"...love for a holiday that honors the abolition of slavery, Miss Juneteenth is coming right on time...."
June 19, 2020 Screens Feature by Selome Hailu
Renee Davis' 25 Years as Harriet Tubman in Sister Moses
The dancer talks about her quarter-century of walking in the footsteps of this legendary conductor on the Underground Railroad
"...on the role of Tubman, from her life of slavery and escape from it through her work with the..."
Feb. 7, 2020 Arts Feature by Robert Faires
Hell on the Border
The story of the first black deputy U.S. marshal
"...true story of Bass Reeves, the man who survived slavery and the Civil War to become the first black..."
