The Girls on the 50-Yard Line

Documentarian Mylène Moreno always wanted to be a professional athlete. Instead, she made True-Hearted Vixens, a film about women who did. Moreno brings Vixens, documenting the attempt to create a women's professional football league, and her short "Cormac's Trash" to the Alamo Drafthouse this Wednesday.

"...filmmaker Hector Galán's Chicano! History of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement series for PBS. But what I never..."

May 25, 2001 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

A Raisin in the Sun

Pro Arts Collective's new production of A Raisin in the Sun does credit to Lorraine Hansberry's powerful script. Even though it runs for three hours, the show is gripping to the very end.

"...she became something of a mentor for the ensuing civil rights movement...."

Feb. 16, 2001 Arts Review by Mary Jane Garza

Eating Between the Lines

Books for Cooks

"...Opelika, Alabama, and traces the culinary legacy of the civil rights movement from New Orleans through Atlanta and into..."

Dec. 15, 2000 Food Feature by Pableaux Johnson

Letters at 3AM

October 1, 1955, a half-hour show called The Honeymooners slipped in some uneasy truths under cover of laughter.

"...to instigate the Montgomery Bus Boycott and initiate the civil rights movement ... The Supreme Court ordered the desegregation..."

March 31, 2000 Column by Michael Ventura

Can't Hear Your Mama Call

"...you believe in coincidences: rock & roll and the civil rights movement, two of the most transformative forces in..."

June 11, 1999 Column by Michael Ventura

Football and Parades

"...in even, genteel tones to Florida politicians why the Civil Rights movement was important, remembering how my own father..."

Nov. 27, 1998 Screens Column by Margaret Moser

Drive Time

TV Eye

"...Lyndon Baines Johnson; and Chicano! History of the Mexican-American Civil Rights Movement (8/31, 10pm) traces 10 years of its..."

Aug. 7, 1998 Screens Column by Margaret Moser

Slouching Toward Iambic Pentameter

Recent Poetry From the Bottom Up

"...around more general issues, like Vietnam and the Sixties Civil Rights movement. From there, Piercy goes from specific incisiveness..."

Aug. 1, 1997 Books Feature by Phil West

Pointed Remembrances, Pointless Arguments

Letters at 3AM

"...brutally to take in deeply without brutalizing oneself. The civil rights movement, with its own beatings and killings, had..."

May 9, 1997 Column by Michael Ventura

Glow of the Tube

"...In the tumult of the civil rights movement in the mid-Sixties, LIFE magazine ran a..."

April 18, 1997 Screens Column by Margaret Moser

The Usual Mayhem

A Potpourri of Book Reviews

"...a theatre company in New York catering to young playwrights, imbues the book with his ability to listen, observe,..."

Nov. 22, 1996 Books Feature

Naked City

Off the Desk

"..."greatest wave of terrorism against black churches since the civil rights movement." Yet the federal agency chosen to lead..."

June 21, 1996 News Feature

Ascension of an Icon

Marketing John Coltrane

"...dictatorship in favor of a socialist Cuba. Stateside, the civil rights movement of the Sixties challenged the conventions of..."

Feb. 2, 1996 Music Feature

The Word Made Song

Gospel Music in Austin

"...of deliverance remained, and became dominant again during the Civil Rights movement, sparking renewed interest in gospel music among..."

Dec. 22, 1995 Music Feature

Art and Photography Books Picture This!

"...career has taken him from Harper's Bazaar through the Civil Rights movement and Vietnam into high society and a..."

Dec. 15, 1995 Books Feature

This Should Go on Forever

Genre-lizing Swamp Pop

"...These were black and white artists coexisting in the pre-Civil Rights Movement in the South, bound by a love..."

Oct. 13, 1995 Music Feature

Reissues

"...series highlights songs that were unofficial anthems of the civil rights movement. More than just "message" songs (powerful as..."

July 28, 1995 Music Feature

Preserving a 'Special Kind of Place'

Scott Swearingen on the ‘environmental city’

"...Scott Swearingen: The SOS [Save Our Springs Alliance] movement in the 1990s ... a lot of people sort..."

April 23, 2010 News Feature by Nora Ankrum

The Way Home

Zach Theatre gives Robert Schenkkan's All the Way its Texas premiere on LBJ's home turf

"...accomplish in a single year: the passage of the Civil Rights Act and laying the groundwork for the Voting..."

April 10, 2015 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Red Guards and the Modern Face of Protest

Agitators, disrupters, or “anarchists,” these masked protesters represent a new resistance

"...of today's public protests. Occupy Wall Street, the global movement that exposed the enormous wealth disparity in the United..."

Feb. 17, 2017 News Feature by Joseph Caterine

Rebel With Many Causes

A Philosophical Divide

"...Valley, he with the Texas branch of the American Civil Liberties Union, at a salary of $5,000 a year...."

Sept. 11, 1998 News Feature by Erica C. Barnett

How Much Reform Is Enough in the Travis County District Attorney Race?

Incumbent D.A. Margaret Moore faces challengers from the left

"...possession, to her creation of specialized units to address civil rights, family violence, and adult sexual assault, and to..."

Aug. 23, 2019 News Feature by Michael King

Greg Casar Enters the National Spotlight, and Brings His Grassroots Coalition With Him

New year, new rep

"...knowledge is to crafting and adopting it. Building a Movement..."

Dec. 30, 2022 News Feature by Austin Sanders

A Place at the Long Table

The complex, nuanced, unmistakable taste of Juneteenth, 139 years later

"...are free. This involves an absolute equality of personal rights and rights of property, between former masters and slaves,..."

June 17, 2005 Food Feature by Toni Tipton-Martin

Page Two

Songs of democracy in distress

"...argument. The Declaration of Independence, Constitution, and Bill of Rights did not create the ideas they contain; they brilliantly..."

April 25, 2003 Column by Louis Black

Suffragette

Carey Mulligan gets her Norma Rae on in this historical drama

"...in a brief cameo) is encouraging the women’s suffrage movement to engage in acts of civil disobedience to further..."

Nov. 6, 2015 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

TV Eye

Phil Alden Robinson's Freedom Song, premiering on TNTthis Sunday, is a touching depiction of a small town's grassroots Civil Rights movement; also, cheers to Frasier and jeers for Fox's Who Wants to Marry a Multi-Millionaire.

"...King Jr. and Rosa Parks, for example, are well-known civil-rights-era "stars." Lesser known are the undocumented heroes at the..."

Feb. 25, 2000 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Marching for Democracy, From Georgetown to Austin

Refusing to take even one step back

"...a path forward for protecting Texans' and Americans' voting rights. "We know that a seed cast in good soil..."

July 30, 2021 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Austin’s Sexual Assault Controversies Roil the District Attorney’s Race

Margaret Moore's controversial handling of rape cases brings opponents to the race

"...she says, to stand up for rape survivors whose rights she believes are being ignored by the incumbent and..."

Feb. 7, 2020 News Feature by Sarah Marloff

Page Two: Name-Calling, Part II

Name-Calling, Part II: The proud badge of 'cowardice'

"...is the new, virulent racism with which the words "civil rights," "level playing field," and "equal opportunity for all"..."

Feb. 10, 2006 Column by Louis Black

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