Public Notice: Affordability & Economic Segregation

(Plus some fun stuff at the end)

"...next day is "Divided City? A Conversation About Eco­nom­ic Segregation & CodeNEXT," wherein the Real Estate Council of Austin..."

May 5, 2017 News Column by Nick Barbaro

Segregation in the Hereafter?

"...It's not a matter of segregation, says the Rev. J. Charles Merrill, senior pastor of..."

March 28, 1997 News Feature

Gay Segregation

"...know that there has always been some form of segregation enforced (at one time) and just understood [“Gay Place,”..."

March 9, 2005 Postmarks

AISD: Board Approves Sex Segregation

AISD board approves three single-sex schools on Eastside

Feb. 1, 2013 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Aahhh, Sweet Utopia! Just Forget Institutionalized Segregation, the Cold War, Religious Prejudice, Blacklisting, Labor Unrest, Inequality of Women, and Polio

Jan. 9, 2006 Postmarks

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Jackie Robinson's story is told as a socially conscious moral tale about the malevolence of segregation.

"...tale about the pervasive evil and sheer malevolence of segregation. Intellectually admirable, this is also the easiest path to..."

April 12, 2013 Movie Review by Louis Black

The Order of Myths

This smart and subtle documentary looks at the ingrained traditions of racial segregation that still remain in the dual Mardi Gras celebrations in Mobile, Ala.

"...still plagued by a dark past and de facto segregation in the present. In Brown’s excellent new documentary (which,..."

Oct. 24, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Public Notice: How Austin Ranks

What a new report about racial segregation says about our city

"...at 73rd (so in the bottom 40% for racial segregation). The study also found that the Austin metro region..."

June 25, 2021 News Column by Nick Barbaro

Point Austin: Desegregating Austin

New report on economic inequality should galvanize action

"...and Charlotta Mellan­der, "Segregated City: The Geography of Economic Segregation in America's Metros"..."

Feb. 27, 2015 News Column by Michael King

Opinion: AISD Is Perpetuating a Historic Racial Dividing Line

Annika Olson of UT-Austin’s Institute for Urban Policy Research & Analysis urges AISD to reconsider its School Changes plan for elementary school closures

"...Master Plan of Austin, we can see the stark segregation that still exists nearly 100 years later. Metz, Sims,..."

March 20, 2020 Column by Annika Olson

Tovo and Casar Unfiltered on CodeNEXT

The Council members' full conversation with the Chronicle

"...or worse public transportation options, better or worse economic segregation, better or worse housing supply in high-opportunity areas vs...."

Sept. 14, 2017 News Post by Nick Barbaro

The Least of These

UT professor Horace Newcomb reflects on the segregation South on the release of his friend and colleague Paul Stekler's documentary George Wallace: Settin' the Woods on Fire.

"...were the illegal, immoral, and evil aspects of racial segregation. Small acts, in those times, could mark one as..."

March 10, 2000 Features Feature by Horace Newcomb

The Luv Doc: Private School

Fueled by a heady blood rush of Dunning-Kruger hubris

"...suddenly has a huge boner for school vouchers (aka "segregation vouchers" by people who aren't hopelessly or willfully naive)...."

March 3, 2023 Column by The Luv Doc

Public Notice: EDU Tidbits

Plenty of school news, even though school’s out for now

"...most racially segregated" as well. See the report at www.ginaforaustin.com/texas-school-segregation-report, or join a Facebook Live Community Conversa­tion at 5:15pm..."

June 19, 2020 News Column by Nick Barbaro

Hillary’s America: The Secret History of the Democratic Party

Another distorted salvo from Dinesh D’Souza

"...and then, for the next century, racist advocates of segregation and Jim Crow laws. D’Souza by omission, distortion, and..."

July 22, 2016 Movie Review by Louis Black

The Desegregation of Austin's Movie Theatres

A history of the stand-in movement

"...followed a fertile springtime of swiftly sprouting resistance to segregation, with black students across the South quashing Dixie mores..."

Dec. 4, 2015 Screens Feature by Jordan Buckley

Capitol Chronicle

Political commentary on the career of Henry B. Gonzalez

"...course, is state senator Gonzalez' heroic 1957 stand against segregation, when he led a filibuster in the Texas Senate..."

Dec. 8, 2000 News Column by Michael King

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

Apologies and remedies for a long legacy of oppression

"...what is today Central East Austin. This de jure segregation gradually starved out of existence the other freedom settlements..."

March 5, 2021 News Post by Austin Sanders

Saving Austin's Schools

Nobody gets everything they want, but AISD’s bond may give everybody something they really need

"...Pace rejects the claim of deliberate segregation. Not only are more funds going to Title I..."

Sept. 8, 2017 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Texans With Disabilities Physically Barred From Policymakers

The inaccessibility at the Capitol is emblematic of the city at large

"...Many in the disability community believed that their physical segregation – in schools, institutions, and public places – was..."

July 28, 2017 News Feature by Taylor Jackson Buchanan

Nonprofits and the City's Quest for Affordable Housing

Helping usher Austin out of a quagmire of inequality

"...came at the expense of reinforcing racial and economic segregation. In fact, the reason Austin's first public housing project..."

July 14, 2017 News Feature by Joseph Caterine

City's Racism Task Force Unveils Report

Group focuses on five issues to combat institutional racism

"...Education: Rooted in school segregation, Austin classrooms continue to be culturally “mismatched,” to the..."

April 4, 2017 News Post by Mary Tuma

Down to the Last Pitch

Seven cities, seven mayors, $50 million

"...city,” it carries a history of racial and economic segregation as a particular burden in addressing inequities (noting the..."

June 9, 2016 News Post by Michael King

Page Two: I Am Trump, You Are Trump

The dangerous cancer of a charismatic populist demagogue leader

"...the South's leading and most outspoken racist leaders, promising "segregation now, segregation tomorrow, and segregation forever."..."

June 3, 2016 Column by Louis Black

Council Recap: Water and Housing

Council takes on excessive water bills, "missing middle" in housing

"...way to “permanent government dependency” and “institutionalizing permanent economic segregation.” Adler took a moment to calmly counter Zimmerman’s indignation:..."

April 8, 2016 News Post by Mary Tuma

Bonus Points for Affordability

One council member hopes to ensure bonus program developers are building affordable housing on-site

"...have the effect of exacerbating Aus­tin's already well-documented housing segregation problem...."

Oct. 2, 2015 News Feature by Mary Tuma

Written in Stone

History of racism lives on in UT monuments

"...and Woodrow Wilson, as America's 28th president, argued that "segregation is not a humiliation but a benefit, and ought..."

May 29, 2015 News Feature by Mac McCann

Page Two: Kings of Mean

The worst legacy of this administration is the terrible behavior it fostered in its citizens

"...dream is: a wish, a hope, an imagined place. Segregation ruled, and Jim Crow was the standard social condition..."

Feb. 1, 2008 Column by Louis Black

Equality

Ornette Coleman, speaking softly and carrying a huge legacy

"...When I grew up in Fort Worth, there was segregation, so if that's what you mean, I'd start with..."

Nov. 12, 2004 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Here Come the Judges -- Again: Round Two for Owen, Pickering

Texas progressives mobilize against federal judicial nominees Priscilla Owen and Charles Pickering

"...state representative and a judge, of support for racial segregation. Both nominations failed in committee on straight-party 10-9 votes;..."

Jan. 17, 2003 News Feature by Michael King

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