Page Two: 'Life,' the Universe, Everything

The devastating illumination of Terrence Malick's new film

"...the American South during the century of Jim Crow segregation. My parents, sisters, and I were not slaves nor..."

June 3, 2011 Column by Louis Black

QueerBomb/Pride Roundtable: Extended Remix

QueerBomb and Austin Pride meet for a roundtable

"...– that I know of – any form of segregation, like, this is the adults-only area and you have..."

June 3, 2011 Features Feature by Kate X Messer

Point Austin: We Have Just Begun To Fight

The budget battles are only skirmishes in the long march toward democracy

"...with those whose idea of reform is the subtle segregation of the poor and desperate. I want no part..."

March 18, 2011 News Column by Michael King

Res Publica

Citizens' calendar, March 17-24

"...and organizations together to celebrate Austin's diversity as the segregation of our communities becomes a thing of the past...."

March 18, 2011 News Column

Proud To Be 'Unacceptable'

Superintendent Kuhn delivers rousing speech

"...with those whose idea of reform is the subtle segregation of the poor and desperate. I want no part..."

March 18, 2011 News Feature

Headlines

"...have used the 10th Amendment "to justify slavery, school segregation, poll taxes, and literacy tests."..."

March 11, 2011 News Feature

To Hell With Cronjé

What makes this novel and its fresh English-language publication so timely is that its themes have become uncomfortably familiar

"...conservative values that would drive South Africa into brutal segregation and its long cultural isolation, and it serves here..."

Sept. 10, 2010 Books Review by Richard Whittaker

The Cross of Redemption: Uncollected Writings

James Baldwin, the oracular writer and spectacular wordsmith of mid-20th century America, is revivified in this new collection

"...going to be resolved with the end of legal segregation and the rise of the black power movement...."

Aug. 20, 2010 Books Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

'The Next New Thing'

Author Larry Cuban on the history of reform in Austin schools

"...responsible for the history of poverty, the history of segregation, and the consequences that flow from that legacy.'" Traditionally,..."

Aug. 6, 2010 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Page Two: Between the Lines

What editors blog about when they blog about editing

"...original stories aboutpolice corruption,union skullduggery,hot bankers,hippie crack dealers,rotten landlordsandschool segregation...."

Aug. 6, 2010 Column by Louis Black

Page Two: Mutiny: A Ballet in Several Parts

Part II, Illustration Not Validation

"...was bad enough, but more than 100 years of segregation meant the most base and prejudiced racial biases were..."

May 14, 2010 Column by Louis Black

What Is Form-Based Code?

"...contrast to conventional zoning's focus on the micromanagement and segregation of land uses, and the control of development intensity..."

Jan. 8, 2010 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

The Beatles

"...wildcat harmonies. Its stereo counterpart devolves into left/right channel segregation, but this time the isolation of McCartney's vocals on..."

Oct. 2, 2009 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

Christmas Carols With Walter Cronkite

Holiday memories of the legendary TV newsman

"...food and the interstate highway system, and ended legal segregation, he was a lodestar in his universe...."

Aug. 7, 2009 News Feature by Kevin Phinney

How the Beatles Destroyed Rock 'n' Roll: An Alternative History of American Popular Music

The Fab Four ruined so-called 'rock 'n' roll music'

"...dancers who kept the whole mass afloat." Further, "the segregation of American popular music that began with the British..."

July 17, 2009 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Texas Just Abolished Poll Taxes!

Twenty-fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution finally ratified here

"...However, Texas and a few other segregation-loving holdouts didn't sign it. House Joint Resolution 39 by..."

May 22, 2009 News Post by Lee Nichols

Page Two: Up, Up, and Away

Do Obama's sky-high approval ratings and unprecedented support indicate unrealistic expectations?

"...the end of slavery but ignoring the existence of segregation (more than 100 years of institutionalized racism). Disingenuously, he..."

Jan. 23, 2009 Column by Louis Black

Page Two: And Everyone and I Stopped Breathing

What if the government isn't broken?

"...American Congress took legislative action to end legal, government-mandated segregation. This achievement is accentuated because so many voted for..."

Nov. 14, 2008 Column by Louis Black

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Voting Booth

AFS Documentary Tour presents Election Day

"...showed the tenacity of racial division, even de facto segregation, in America. But the footage we watched in the..."

Nov. 7, 2008 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Talkin' the Walk

Hip-hop theatre artist Zell Miller III speaks truth about radio, race, and fatherhood

"...it has not yet quite shaken the old, old segregation. There are African-American companies and Hispanic companies in town,..."

Aug. 22, 2008 Arts Feature by Katherine Catmull

Johnston Should Rot In Hell

"...that the school got its name when discrimination and segregation were legal, but to name a school where a..."

Aug. 13, 2008 Postmarks

Mothership Connection

Space is place for the hip-hop race

"...the far reaches of our galaxy. Statements of a counter-segregation, these depicted the black culture as an independent one...."

July 25, 2008 Music Feature by Chase Hoffberger

People of Low Income Have Rights

"...blight. Please see "Group Sues, Says Housing Program Perpetuates Segregation," The Dallas Morning News, April 24. Shame on the..."

June 23, 2008 Postmarks

Rehabilitation or Torture?

Texas prison inmates say their 'therapy' has taken a dark turn

"...being sucker-punched by another inmate (who was placed in segregation). According to Stodder-Caldwell and other inmates, the assaulted woman..."

May 23, 2008 News Feature by Patricia J. Ruland

Page Two: Correlation Does Not Imply Causation

The lessons of Florida beaches, anti-drug education, and chain gangs

"...is good," "Treating one another fairly is desirable," and, "Segregation based on race, religion, ethnicity, and sex is wrong."..."

May 9, 2008 Column by Louis Black

My Taco With Margaret

Tacos taste better when you are learning things … especially things about awesome filmmakers like The Order of Myths' Margaret Brown.

"...segregated celebration. In my journeys, I learned, however, that segregation is fairly entrenched across the board in many a..."

March 13, 2008 Qmmunity Post by Kate X Messer

Page Two: Love and Creation

An approach to the SXSW Film Festival

"...their worst – details of brutality, oppression, systemic legal segregation, the Klan, federal intervention, resistance, the struggle for civil..."

March 7, 2008 Column by Louis Black

David Van Os on Single-Member Districts

Texas attorney on the history of the "gentlemen’s agreement"

"...were not too excited about returning to Jim Crow segregation. They began to assert themselves. For example in Austin..."

Feb. 28, 2008 News Post by Wells Dunbar

John Sayles

The evolution of American music and Southern race relations in Honeydripper

"...we allow to separate us. In the case of segregation in the South, those laws didn't exist unless somebody..."

Feb. 1, 2008 Screens Feature by Melanie Haupt

Page Two: Welcome to the Funhouse

Republicans' rhetorical sleight of hand has allowed them to distort this country's founding principles while seeming to uphold them

"...200 years of slavery and more than 100 of segregation (institutionalized, government-approved racism), they now declare all races are..."

Jan. 25, 2008 Column by Louis Black

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