Majority Minority

It's official, according to census data

"...Texas is one of five U.S. states with a majority minority population, according to U.S. Census Bureau data released..."

May 18, 2012 News Post by Jordan Smith

Opinion: Where Is the Support for Minority Faculty to Succeed at UT?

A retired professor reflects on how little has changed at Texas' flagship university since he first started teaching nearly 50 years ago

"...want good positions in the private and public sectors. Minority parents and students have those same aspirations...."

Feb. 10, 2023 Column by Dan Acosta

Leave Greens Alone, Worry About Apathetic Majority

"...in the crowning of Bush – the thousands of minority voters thrown off the rolls, Gore's tragic mistake in..."

Aug. 13, 2003 Postmarks

Minority Rights v. Majority Rule

Texas documentary tour presents 'Larry v. Lockney'

Jan. 10, 2003 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

Mapping 'Political Apartheid'

The new map gives DeLay more R's, but perhaps fewer than he wanted.

"...carried by GOP statewide candidates in 2002 and 11 majority-minority districts. The map passed on Tuesday by the full..."

July 11, 2003 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Legal Challenges to Redistricting Maps Begin

Rep. Garnet Coleman files complaint to Justice Department

"...the Texas House despite the opposition of an overwhelming majority of African American and Latino legislators. The House Bill..."

April 29, 2011 News Post by Lee Nichols

Point Austin: Supremes v. Texas

The future of U.S. politics may become, "Vote for Show, Map for Dough"

"...potential to affect this fall's elections, suggests that a majority of the nine justices believes the partisan redistricting issue..."

March 10, 2006 News Column by Michael King

Charting the Maps

"...seats in the Texas Senate. To hear U.S House Majority Leader Tom DeLay or his allies talk, what they..."

May 9, 2003 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Capitol Chronicle

Beneath the partisan rancor over re-redistricting boils a fight over minority rights.

"...-- send more Republicans to Congress -- without disenfranchising minority voters all across the state." -- Rep. Ruth Jones..."

July 11, 2003 News Column by Michael King

Rights and Consequences

The Redistricting trial pits "partisan gerrymandering" against the Voting Rights Act.

"...a transparent attempt to make it more difficult for minority voters to reach the polls. "If a Republican banker..."

Dec. 19, 2003 News Feature by Michael King

On The Lege

The GOP Senate tightens the screws on the absent Texas 11.

"...the Dems have called a "poll tax" imposed on minority senators by their Anglo colleagues -- Democratic Caucus Chair..."

Aug. 22, 2003 News Column by Michael King

Re-Redistricting

If Tom DeLay has his way, Austin will have no voice in Congress.

"...important congressional player was not in the room: House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R-Sugar Land, had his aide, Jim..."

May 9, 2003 News Feature by Michael King

Albuquerque or Bust!

The Texas Senate Democrats make a stand in New Mexico against congressional redistricting.

"...plan after plan that disenfranchises more than a million minority voters and discards the choices of Texas voters." On..."

Aug. 8, 2003 News Column by Michael King

Carving Up Texas

A Preview of Redistricting at the Lege

"...lead hawk is Houston's Ken Bentsen, who says "the majority of the delegation [wants] as little change to the..."

Feb. 9, 2001 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Collateral Damage

Assessing the cost of service for minority veterans

"...compared to other vets, those numbers are rising. The majority of homeless veterans are male, suffer from mental illness..."

July 17, 2015 News Feature by Kahron Spearman

The Charter, the Devil, and the Details

Charter Revision Committee sends its recommendations to City Council

"...who lost the two votes decided to contribute a minority report defending their own recommendation for a 10-2-1 system,..."

Feb. 24, 2012 News Feature by Michael King

Point Austin: Supreme Confusion

The Supreme Court ratifies the Texas GOP majority with a shrug

"...(i.e., including noncitizens) to maintain the illusion of a majority-minority district. Wrote Justice Anthony Kennedy for the court, "The..."

July 7, 2006 News Column by Michael King

Point Austin: MUD in Your Eye

Northwest Austin suburb chal­lenges the Voting Rights Act

"...and a host of other intervenors on behalf of minority voting rights, including Travis County. On the other side,..."

Nov. 9, 2007 News Column by Michael King

Court: Texas House Districts Unlawful, Unconstitutional

Panel of judges rules 2-1 against drawing of 2011 maps

"...that the state’s congressional districts were drawn to suppress minority votes, but left unresolved the companion ruling on state..."

April 20, 2017 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Slicing the Map

Charting single-member possibilities

"...dwindling black population makes it difficult to draw a majority-black district. So while Hispanics may gain more seats than..."

Nov. 2, 2007 News Feature by Wells Dunbar

Mapping the Changes

A preview of proposed new single-member districts

"...into creating as many districts as possible with strong minority populations: As Robinson puts it, "If we're able to..."

April 5, 2002 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Family Flight

Will AISD abandon its shrinking schools?

"...policy, the overall pattern undermines diversity – the vast majority of Austin's white and middle-class students are congregated in..."

Feb. 3, 2006 News Feature by Rachel Proctor May

Supremes Turn Down Perry and Dewhurst

The Texas Supreme Court rejects Perry and Dewhurst's request for a writ of mandamus against the fugitive Senate Democrats.

"...between the two-thirds rule and the voting rights of minority Texans, especially since all but one of the senators..."

Aug. 15, 2003 News Column by Michael King

A Quarrel With the Status Quo

Charlie Baird on criminal justice, equity, and the Travis County D.A.

"...Robert Smith; they're the screeners. Not everybody, but the majority of people in the program, are white. And the..."

Jan. 20, 2012 News Feature

Point Austin: Senator Farewell

Gonzalo Barrientos steps down from his place as the people's senator

"...fled to New Mexico rather than provide a helpless minority backdrop to the Republican ratification of Tom DeLay's political..."

Sept. 16, 2005 News Column by Michael King

Endangered Species?

The remaining rural Democrats in the Legislature consider their options -- and fight back.

"...against a Republican incumbent to represent a largely rural, Republican-majority district. (His colleague and law partner Jim Dunnam also..."

July 18, 2003 News Feature by Michael King

Capitol Chronicle

The imposition of probation is the latest attempt of the GOP leadership to put minority senators in their place.

"...are either themselves Hispanic or African-American or else represent majority-minority districts -- the Republican howls were long and loud...."

Sept. 26, 2003 News Column by Michael King

Do the Travis Three-Way

"...not only to screw Doggett (reviled by U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay) but -- even more so --..."

Oct. 10, 2003 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

Capitol Chronicle

The fight over re-redistricting is a battle for the civil rights of minority Texans.

"...Bonilla also dismissed what he called "professional minority groups," singling out for criticism the League of United..."

Aug. 29, 2003 News Column by Michael King

"Juntos/Together" Ties Austin's Activist Past and Present

Shedding light on action & initiatives by local minority communities

"...streets for their rights, incidents of police brutality against minority community members, and a changing Austin landscape in response..."

March 28, 2018 Arts Post by Acacia Coronado

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