Getting Creative With Constraints

AFS Documentary Tour presents the 10 Under 10 shorts program

"...a woman who has experienced Jim Crow and the civil rights movement and finally lives to see the election..."

May 8, 2009 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Nina Simone

"...Indigo"). Her comet shines brightest on contributions to the civil rights movement – "Backlash Blues," co-written by friend Langston..."

Dec. 12, 2008 Music Review by Chase Hoffberger

The Hardest Working Man: How James Brown Saved the Soul of America

"...lens through which to view Boston race relations, the civil rights movement, and Brown's remarkable career as the hardest-working..."

Dec. 5, 2008 Music Feature by Thomas Fawcett

Caroline, or Change

Zach Theatre's fine staging should be required viewing at this historic moment

"...hovering at the edge of these stories are the civil rights movement and the assassination of JFK. It feels..."

Oct. 17, 2008 Arts Review by Hannah Kenah

Odetta Sings!

A blues legend shines on Austin

"...and commanding vocals serving as the voice of the civil rights movement. Dubbed by Martin Luther King Jr. as..."

June 5, 2008 Music Post by Doug Freeman

Book Expo America: Where Books Go to Party

Book Expo America

"...California was originally published in 1964 during the early civil rights movement. They told me that Eva is 91..."

June 3, 2008 Books Post by Joe O'Connell

Appetite for Change

"...most speakers equate the climate change challenge to the civil rights movement, they gave global warming one better and..."

Feb. 23, 2008 Postmarks

The Re-Energizer Revival

Students from across state descend upon UT for global warming conference

"...Climate change will be the modern equivalent of the civil rights movement, and it will be the responsibility of..."

Feb. 15, 2008 News Feature by Andrea Grimes

John Sayles

The evolution of American music and Southern race relations in Honeydripper

"...crossroads of American music but also of the burgeoning civil rights movement, all told from the perspective of a..."

Feb. 1, 2008 Screens Feature by Melanie Haupt

Respect Yourself: The Stax Records Story

Stax Records Roundup

"...Memphis for their 2007 documentary, Respect Yourself. With the civil rights movement as a backdrop, black and white session..."

Dec. 21, 2007 Music Review by Greg Beets

Hank, Harry, and Jesse James

Sitting in with Jimmy Grabowske, steel guitarist to the stars

"...era for music, the period leading up to the civil rights movement giving birth to new genres of music,..."

Oct. 5, 2007 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

TV Eye

Galán and La Guerra

"...aired on PBS, including Chicano! History of the Mexican-American Civil Rights Movement, Visiones: Latino Art and Culture, and Songs..."

April 27, 2007 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Say It Loud! I'm What? and I'm Proud

Trolling South by Southwest 2007

"...make $25." Public Enemy rapper Chuck D evoked the civil rights movement and the idea that true equality constitutes..."

March 23, 2007 Music Review by Robert Gabriel

Tuber

First place

"...our responsibilities to society. We had 1960s socialism, the civil rights movement – it was obvious then what the..."

Feb. 9, 2007 Books Feature by Mark Grayson Mayer

Foreword

Previewing the 2006 Texas Book Festival

"...of My Times: An Advocate's Fifty-Year Journey in the Civil Rights Movement William L. Taylor; Intro: Sandy Kress..."

Oct. 27, 2006 Books Feature by Shawn Badgley

Rock & Roll Books

Summer reading

"...thrust Domino to the symbolic forefront of an emerging Civil Rights movement. Following the lead of fellow New Orleans..."

June 2, 2006 Music Feature by Robert Gabriel

Pulse: Oscar Riquelme

Oscar Riquelme's paintings in the exhibition 'Pulse' are attractive, accessible, well composed, and layered in subtle politics

"...that the agendas of the unions and of the civil rights movement have grown stagnant and have, in many..."

Feb. 24, 2006 Arts Review by Rachel Koper

Following 'Suit'

'Zoot Suit' revival, symposium track the impact of Luis Valdez's powerful play then and now

"...Mexican-American experience. Further inspired by the victories of the civil rights movement, Valdez wrote Zoot Suit, sensing that his..."

Sept. 17, 2004 Arts Feature by Belinda Acosta

Letters at 3AM

Our country's newest immigrant generation is no longer learning that this nation will belong to them

"...and that America would one day be ours. (The civil rights movement, for instance, could not have existed had..."

July 9, 2004 Column by Michael Ventura

TV Eye

Trio tells the story of the N-word, and then Chuck D takes over

"...high school friends enjoy a carefree life as the civil rights movement gains momentum and they are suddenly confronted..."

July 2, 2004 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Green Day, Thanks to NEA

Austin artists and agencies will receive a total of $891,200 in the latest round of federal funding from the National Endowment for the Arts

"...support the documentation and collection of stories from the civil rights movement, which will be used to formulate future..."

May 14, 2004 Arts Feature

Once Upon a Time in Austin

The films, the filmmakers, the crews, the making of a scene

"...of the Homeland (1995); Chicano! History of the Mexican-American Civil Rights Movement (four-part series, 1996); The Border (six-part series,..."

March 12, 2004 Screens Feature by Louis Black

'Pocho' Patchwork

AFS's Texas Doc Tour brings the formidable Héctor Galán and his 'Visiones' to One World Theatre.

"...Latino population, including Chicano! History of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement (1996). He'll screen 10 segments (about 70..."

Sept. 12, 2003 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Changing Places

The new Pickle Elementary School is a crucible of the changing St. Johns neighborhood

"...community, but over time its problems grew. After the civil rights movement and desegregation, bussing spread the neighborhood children..."

Feb. 7, 2003 News Feature by Michael May

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...also made significant progress on another goal of the Civil Rights movement, that no one be restricted on where..."

March 15, 2002 Column

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...changed so very much since the beginning of the Civil Rights Movement. There should be no room for misogynistic..."

Jan. 25, 2002 Column

Motherless Child

Obscure monument to balladry finally sees the light of day

"...if 1969's The Source was a nod to the civil rights movement of that decade. "It was just emotions...."

July 6, 2001 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

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

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