Confederate Statue Report Released
UT task force recommends taking action
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Aug. 10, 2015 News Post by Mac McCann
Fantastic Fest Gets Arty
First titles, plus Nicolas Winding Refn on exploitation
"...on historical facts about the rise and revolt of slavery in America is one of the most brilliant, misunderstood,..."
July 30, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker
Beside the Point: Absence of Evidence Is Evidence of Ignorance
As we become submerged in factless policy-making, a request to return to reason
"...a right-wing-tilted rendition of events. The board grossly downplayed slavery and segregation while propping up biblical principles and religious..."
July 24, 2015 News Feature by Mary Tuma
The Wrong Kind of Rebel Rock
Why bands are lowering the Confederate battle flag
"...Vice President Alexander H. Stephens clearly spelled out that slavery was the “immediate cause of the late rupture and..."
July 22, 2015 Music Post by Richard Whittaker
News Roundup: Tragedies and Textbooks
Another officer-involved shooting; Waco shootout update
"...come tumbling down, and calls to remove statues of slavery-supporting leaders take hold, renewed focus has turned to Texas..."
July 13, 2015 News Post by the News Staff
State of the Union
A Fourth of July film roundup that goes beyond Independence Day
"...rid of a flag that is inextricably linked to slavery. So there are a lot of things to celebrate..."
July 3, 2015 Screens Feature by Josh Kupecki
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
Breaking the Chains
Slavery may be illegal, but it's not eradicated
"...at that time, it was known, more simply, as slavery. The Long Shadow..."
June 19, 2015 News Feature by Lizzie Jespersen
Local Resources for Human Trafficking Victims
"...Allies Against Slavery Leads advocacy, education, and activism initiatives in the community...."
June 19, 2015 News Feature
Written in Stone
History of racism lives on in UT monuments
"...memorial is dedicated." Left unmentioned is the issue of slavery...."
May 29, 2015 News Feature by Mac McCann
Jade Helm and Tinfoil Hats
Abbott, Cruz, Jade Helm, and the death of the sane GOP
"...against the Union in the Civil War, and called anti-slavery Texans traitors, Gov. Greg Abbott indulged in some naked..."
May 5, 2015 News Post by Richard Whittaker
Finding Allies Against Slavery
Anti-slavery summit meets in Austin
"..."Modern-day slavery": The phrase is emblazoned across advocacy campaign ads and..."
April 17, 2015 News Feature by Lizzie Jespersen
Foodie Is an Ethnocentric Word
Searching for diversity in culinary Austin
"...understood without some historical perspective. During the antebellum years, slavery forced black women into cooking for others. Even after..."
April 17, 2015 Food Feature by Rachel Feit
The South Will Be Celebrated Again!
Historical revisionists urge Lege to protect the Confederacy
"...a good thing, because otherwise we'd probably still have slavery. And, yes, it was about slavery. Like the joke..."
April 15, 2015 News Post by Richard Whittaker
SXSW Live Shot: Sophie
A computer finally expressing joy on its own terms
"...like he’s coaxing a computer out of its quiet slavery and letting it finally express joy on its own..."
March 20, 2015 Music Post by Luke Winkie
Kendrick Lamar: To Pimp A Butterfly
Compton MC takes a quantum leap forward
"...Kunta,” the MC expounds on the power complexes of slavery and fame...."
March 17, 2015 Music Post by Kahron Spearman
Point Austin: "We the People"
The meaning of the anniversaries of the Civil Rights Struggle
"...them, through the suffragists, through the bloodied enders of slavery, the thousands upon thousands of people who literally gave..."
March 13, 2015 News Column by Michael King
Kazuo Ishiguro Slays a Dragon
Acclaimed author returns with a fine novel of fantasy and foreboding
"...Also: War is peace, ignorance is strength, freedom is slavery, and shit is shinola...."
March 7, 2015 Books Post by Wayne Alan Brenner
The Making of Gone With the Wind
This account of the cinematic epic's epic creation is as full of drama and memorable characters as the film itself
"...Rhett, and protests by African-Americans over the treatment of slavery in the story; through the traumatic filming in the..."
Dec. 19, 2014 Arts Feature by Robert Faires
Despite "Flawed" Process, SBOE Votes for Social Studies Textbooks
Vote on books falls along party lines
"...a cartoon mocking affirmative action recipients, strengthening emphasis on slavery’s role as the central impetus for the Civil War,..."
Nov. 21, 2014 News Post by Mary Tuma
Science Groups Demand Textbook Publishers Remove Climate Change Denialism
Social studies textbooks under fire for climate change errors
"...history and distorting topics such as religion, democracy, and slavery, as Newsdesk previously reported. The proposed textbooks were modeled..."
Nov. 12, 2014 News Post by Mary Tuma
News Roundup: Textbooks, Buehler, and More
Your Monday morning news update
"...improving coverage of world religions and making clear that slavery was the major cause of the U.S. Civil War...."
Oct. 27, 2014 News Post by the News Staff
Panel Finds 'Serious Flaws' in SBOE-Backed Social Studies Textbooks
Independent reviewers find more than a dozen factual distortions
"...• While the textbooks largely make clear that slavery was the central cause of the Civil War, some..."
Sept. 10, 2014 News Post by Mary Tuma
Capital City Black Film Festival Returns
Year two gets even more ambitious
"...slave, and they are kind of like bounty hunters, post-slavery – one year post-slavery. It's a movie by a..."
Aug. 20, 2014 Screens Post by Kahron Spearman
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
SBOE: No Scholars Need Apply
SBOE members nominated several unqualified panelists to a social studies textbook review committee.
"...of history." Some lowlights: a vindication of McCarthyism; downplaying slavery's role as a cause of the Civil War; exaggerating..."
July 25, 2014 News Feature by Mary Tuma
Playback: OBN III's Tuned Up
"...and Boss Street Brass Band celebrate African-American freedom from slavery throughout Texas at the inaugural Juneteenth Music Festival, held..."
June 13, 2014 Music Column by Kevin Curtin
Belle
Inspired by a 1779 painting of two real-life cousins – one black, one white – Belle gives a fictionalized account of their lives.
"...almost certainly have larger implications for the future of slavery in England...."
May 23, 2014 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones
The Plantation at Comal Bluff
Sneed House ruins tell a story beneath and behind modern Austin
"...Drive, in what is now the Dove Springs neighborhood. Slavery was legal in Austin then, as it was in..."
