Exploring the Auteurs of Early Black Cinema

AFS screens rare and influential selections from the Pioneers of African-American Cinema

"...black romance and masculinity, and wanton racial violence via lynching and rape. Yet even with the landmark achievements and..."

Feb. 17, 2017 Screens Feature by Kahron Spearman

Ethan Azarian & Jeff Johnston

"...traditional bluegrass song while transposing the tragedy from a lynching to a young woman dying in a car crash...."

Nov. 25, 2016 Music Review by Greg Beets

What Is Loev?

Romance blooms in Mumbai

"...Loev shies away from the coming out and "town lynching" narratives for a less-fetishized story...."

March 11, 2016 Screens Feature by Sarah Marloff

Getting Political With The Tree Play and Robin Hood: An Elegy

Two new Austin plays tackle timely subjects

"...are alarmingly painful – such as the history of lynching, which continues today. Of course, when I see my..."

Aug. 7, 2015 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Do UT Frats Have a Race Problem?

Longtime Longhorn Sees some improvement; room for more

"...the school, he said, "These guys were talking about lynching like, you know, 'It's no big thing, it's just..."

March 27, 2015 News Feature by Mac McCann

UT, OU Take Different Approaches to Racist Speech

OU takes swift action, while UT declines to punish students, citing freedom of speech

"...(SAE) members chanting racist slurs and making reference to lynching was leaked to the OU student paper...."

March 20, 2015 News Feature by Mac McCann

The AggreGAYtor: September 6

What happened today in gay? Here’s your QILTBAG recap of queer news.

"...the newlyweds are reminded of their upcoming religiously sanctioned lynching. It Came from the Tubes..."

Sept. 6, 2013 Qmmunity Post

Much Heat, Some Light at Forum on APD Shooting

APD Chief Art Acevedo comes under sharp questioning at town hall forum

"...B. Wells, who reported on and organized to stop lynching across the country in the 1890s, Linder recalled, "The..."

Aug. 23, 2013 News Feature by Michael King

Much Heat, Some Light at Eastside Forum on APD Shooting

APD's Art Acevedo faced sharp questions Thursday night

"...B. Wells, who reported on and organized to stop lynching across the country in the 1890’s, Linder recalled, “The..."

Aug. 16, 2013 News Post by Michael King

Headlines: Bonus Round

Trail of Lights, Endeavour, Obama, and more

"...this is, in essence, a public call for the lynching of President Barack Obama; a similar protest popped up..."

Sept. 20, 2012 News Post by Monica Riese

A Southern White in the Social-Justice Trenches

AFS Doc Nights screens 'Anne Braden: Southern Patriot'

"...white Southern women to Mississippi to protest the legal lynching of Willie McGee in 1951 (they ended up in..."

July 13, 2012 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Day Trips

Hill Country and Central Texas guidebooks have been updated, expanded, and reissued

"...of stories about gunfights, American Indian depredations, and a lynching as late as 1935...."

July 1, 2011 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Redistricting Map Is 'Deplorable'

"...be confiscated from Mexicans through fraud and after their lynching. Now Republicans seem to think that they have the..."

June 21, 2011 Postmarks

Point Austin: Back to the Color Line

Texas turns back the clock on racial justice

"...and social relations, absolve slave owners and traitors, sidestep lynching and racial violence, and convert the historical gains of..."

Dec. 31, 2010 News Column by Michael King

Bill Minutaglio on Black Texas

UT journalism prof to talk Tuesday in San Marcos

"...one of his ancestors was the victim of a lynching. A relative quietly directs Minutaglio to the site of..."

April 26, 2010 Books Post by Michael King

Page Two: Dangerous Demons

Why do we have to hate those with whom we disagree?

"...time I encountered that particular image – the wide-scale lynching of "enemies" – was when reading the racist Turner..."

Oct. 23, 2009 Column by Louis Black

We Were Right About Hillary All Along

"...seems to be doing a pretty good job of lynching himself right now. John McCain is catching up in..."

Aug. 4, 2008 Postmarks

Naked City

News briefs from Austin, the region, and elsewhere

"..."We can protect students in our public schools without lynching school employees." – Richard Whittaker..."

July 18, 2008 News Feature

Battling Challenges Here Is a Testament to Austin

"...convince us that his "greatest generation" of Cold War, lynching, McCarthyism, etc., was so wonderful, but I digress. I'm..."

Dec. 9, 2007 Postmarks

love conjure/blues

Sharon Bridgforth's love/conjure blues is a ritual steeped in the magic of the Southern black oral tradition and West African spirituality but encircling all of us

"...of her grandfather's spirit broken by the threat of lynching. Further back in time, we hear of an enslaved..."

June 22, 2007 Arts Review by Abe Louise Young

A Guide to the Works

"...and legend in its portrayal of the only known lynching of an elephant in America. (90 min.)..."

April 6, 2007 Arts Feature

Top 10 Theatrical Treasures and Pleasures of 2006

"...the tragedy of Leo Frank's trial for murder and lynching in 1913 Atlanta on a grand canvas, with the..."

Jan. 5, 2007 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Lawless Disorder

Top 10 crime and justice stories

"...8) Legal Lynching: Although there was no incontrovertible evidence against her, on..."

Jan. 6, 2006 News Feature

Page Two

Never mind the consipracy theorists, the death of literacy, and the Democrats' chronic foot-shooting – 'Page Two' needs a break.

"...and in the first half of this century the lynching of African-Americans was almost common in some Southern states...."

July 15, 2005 Column by Louis Black

Oh, Give Me a Home

The 20th 'New American Talent' exhibition reveals a country struggling with isolation and power

"...dinosaurs inhabiting a wild misty environment to little humans lynching one another to vacant landscapes to a bit of..."

July 1, 2005 Arts Feature by Rachel Koper

A Place at the Long Table

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

"...rooted tradition, the rigors of sharecropping, Jim Crow segregation, lynching, social and civil unfairness by angry white Americans eventually..."

June 17, 2005 Food Feature by Toni Tipton-Martin

'The Texas Rangers and the Mexican Revolution' and 'Patrolling Chaos: The U.S. Border Patrol in Deep South Texas'

Two new books about Texas explore a little bit of the deeper, darker, and less obvious parts of our history and culture

"...with the occasional Industrial Workers of the World Wobbly lynching for the railroad or liberal editor head-bashing for the..."

Jan. 14, 2005 Books Review by Ed Baker

Cinematexas 9

Cinematexas International Short Film Festival 9, Sept. 22-26

"...of resident James Byrd Jr.'s tragic and horrendous modern lynching. Yes, much to see. Much to experience. So much..."

Sept. 17, 2004 Screens Feature by Shawn Badgley

Letters at 3AM

The United States military is moving inevitably toward reinstating the draft

"...Native Americans and what the white South did when lynching 5,000-ish African-Americans circa 1900-1950. Torture is nothing new to..."

May 14, 2004 Column by Michael Ventura

Blog Justice on the Wild Web

Is danah boyd a racist or just a woman trying to find her purse?

"...a white woman. Is it fair to cry virtual lynching?..."

April 16, 2004 Screens Feature by Courtney Fitzgerald

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