Fantastic Fest Nabs Latest Derrickson-Cargill-Hawke Horror Collab The Black Phone

Keira Knightley dark comedy Silent Night to close fest

"...min Director - Jenna Cato Bass The aftershocks of apartheid reverberate through a family as a daughter tries to..."

Sept. 9, 2021 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Council Recap: A Not-Just-Symbolic Promise to Lift Up Black Austin

Apologies and remedies for a long legacy of oppression

"...Austinites were exacerbated throughout the 20th century by the apartheid-directed Jim Crow policies of white governments throughout the American..."

March 5, 2021 News Post by Austin Sanders

Cold Case Hammarskjöld Uncovers a Crime Too Terrible to Stay Buried

An assassination to hide an atrocity

"...force the South African government to answer why, even post-Apartheid, files on SAIMR have been hidden...."

May 31, 2019 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Jokes Aside, Trevor Noah Actually Wants To Inform You

The Daily Show host on the 5:30pm curse and comedy in the Trump era

"...due to his oftentimes painful mixed-race upbringing abroad during apartheid (detailed in his 2016 memoir Born a Crime) and..."

March 9, 2019 SXSW Post by Mary Tuma

The Byrds' Sweetheart of the Rodeo Turns 50

The landmark album spins at the Moody Theater via two of its makers and their virtuosic friends

"...London before a South African tour, claiming problems with apartheid. Hillman thinks he really wanted to hang out with..."

Nov. 9, 2018 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

Beto O'Rourke and Ethan Hawke in Conversation

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

"...the guys who wanted his whole race under an apartheid regime. He took the time to read books in..."

Aug. 17, 2018 News Feature by Ethan Hawke

Steve Van Zandt’s Soulfire

Springsteen henchman and Sopranos boss hits the road and classrooms

"...You mentioned South Africa, and your Eighties activism against apartheid is well documented. What politicized you originally? You came..."

May 24, 2018 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Public Notice: The EV/AV Club

Thinking big about planning and mobility

"...areas of the city (see "Public Notice: The New Apartheid?" March 3). Staff flew in the Opticos Design consultants..."

March 10, 2017 News Column by Nick Barbaro

SXSW Music Panel: Angelique Kidjo

Aural biopic of Mother Africa’s reigning diva

"...was her accidental education of slavery and South African apartheid. She remembers reciting a new song, soaked in anger..."

March 19, 2016 SXSW Post by Kahron Spearman

Thursday SXSW Interview: Timmy Thomas & the Overtown Soul Revue

"...Nelson Mandela into power and marked the end of apartheid. "No matter, no matter what color," the song goes,..."

March 18, 2016 Music Feature by Thomas Fawcett

Follow the Money

City attempts to keep up with growing need for services

"...inequities, there's a chance of something of an economic apartheid – a dark crescent edging Down­town and the affluent..."

Oct. 23, 2015 News Feature by Amy Kamp

Peter, Paul & Mary: 50 Years in Music and Life

Honeyed harmonies + social change = PPM

"...focus, and her blunt bangs look especially relevant today. Apartheid demonstrations, nuclear proliferation activism, and even "seven years off..."

Dec. 5, 2014 Music Feature by Nina Hernandez

Mojo Hand

Ringo Starr's still got the magic touch

"...I worked with Zak was the Stevie Van Zandt anti-apartheid track in the Eighties, but then I had Zak..."

Oct. 3, 2014 Music Feature by Richard Whittaker

Cowboys vs. Hippies: The Texas Chain Saw Massacre Subtext

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre reflects Austin's culture in 1974

"...there was preemptive hostility. It was more like an apartheid society...."

Oct. 3, 2014 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Curtain Up on Mayor’s Race

Centex Dem forum opens with ‘major’ candidates

"...paid half the cost). She noted her work on anti-apartheid efforts over many years, and said foreign travel by..."

June 22, 2014 News Post by Michael King

No Nugent Is Good Nugent

GOP weeps over Nugent comments, but are these crocodile tears?

"..."toxic c--t" in 1994? Or his 1990 comment about apartheid that "not all men are created equal"?..."

Feb. 23, 2014 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Top 10 Most Embarrassing Moments in Texas Politics

2013: The year Texas sent in the clowns

"...a Heritage Foundation event extolling the virtues of race-baiting, apartheid-loving, no-homo Sen. Jesse Helms. "We should speak about moral..."

Jan. 8, 2014 News Post by Brandon Watson

Vincent Mantsoe and Dance Theatre X

Defining African-derived contemporary dance with professor Charles O. Anderson

"...experience of the shebeen, a sort of South African apartheid-era speakeasy. Both settings, born from the restriction of people..."

Sept. 20, 2013 Arts Feature by Jonelle Seitz

Ted Cruz: You, Sir, Are No Jesse Helms

Texas senator praises the grand obstructionist and bigot

"...opposed sanctions against the whites-only South African regime under apartheid. Plus, he hated gay people, so just a winning..."

Sept. 12, 2013 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Letters at 3AM: An Arbitrary Nation, Part 4

With the consent of the governed, the United States government has gone rogue and violated international law

"...10, 1948. (There were eight abstentions: the Soviet Bloc, apartheid South Africa, and Saudi Arabia.)..."

June 14, 2013 Column by Michael Ventura

Trying to Reason with Hurricane Season

Two cults beat as one: Jimmy Buffett & Sixto Rodriguez

"...– unbeknownst to him – his bluesy laments became anti-apartheid wedges in South Africa. Sugar Man’s deliberate pacing and..."

May 7, 2013 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Two Beats Hearting As One

English Beat singer Dave Wakeling skanks good karma

"...together,” lamented Costello. “You and your Greenpeace and your anti-apartheid work. It’s all well and good, but your place..."

Jan. 18, 2013 Music Post by Jim Caligiuri

TV Review: 'Soul Food Junkies'

A documentary examining the past, present, and future of soul food

"...as one interviewee describes it in the film, “class-based apartheid - for food.” The ideas that healthy eating is..."

Jan. 13, 2013 Screens Post by Jessi Cape

Civics 101

"...ALLAN BOESAK, a leader against apartheid, will speak this evening about religion that oppresses and..."

Oct. 5, 2012 News Column

Searching for Sugar Man

'Searching for Sugar Man'

"...South Africa – his music became anthemic for the anti-apartheid Voëlvry movement – Rodriguez was a bust in his..."

March 16, 2012 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

'Under African Skies'

'Under African Skies'

"...a long-simmering conversation between Simon and former Artists Against Apartheid founder Dali Tambo, Berlinger takes us back to the..."

March 16, 2012 Screens Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

Black Like Who?

Baratunde Thurston lightens up the conversation on race, technology, and social change

"...mother who shaped him into a "tofu-eating, weekend-camping, karate-chopping, apartheid-hating, top-grade-getting, generally trouble-avoiding agent of blackness." He grew up..."

March 2, 2012 Screens Feature by Cindy Widner

SXSW 2012 Film Lineup Announced

'21 Jump Street' selected as Centerpiece Film

"...cultural boycott of South Africa designed to end the Apartheid regime...."

Feb. 1, 2012 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Darkness, Then Light

Amanda Eyre Ward on the story she always knew she would tell

"...stuff was. And I was writing about South Africa, apartheid-era South Africa, which is so violent, and I had..."

July 15, 2011 Books Feature by Kimberley Jones

A Song of Skid Row

AFS Documentary Tour: On the Bowery

"...world." Initially Rogosin wanted to make a film about apartheid (which would eventually become 1960's Come Back, Africa), but..."

May 6, 2011 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

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