High School by Redesign

Garza Independence High School students get involved with plans to rework local high schools

"...small learning communities from turning into a tool for segregation, he suggested following Garza's model of having honors and..."

June 10, 2005 News Feature by Rachel Proctor May

Shrinking Schools

While the suburbs sprawl, central city schools count their children – and their blessings

"...poor. This is not unusual in AISD, where economic segregation is the norm. Of AISD's 74 elementary schools, 43..."

May 20, 2005 News Feature by Rachel Proctor May

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"...is just a continuation of the same discrimination and segregation that has existed in Austin since before the Civil..."

May 6, 2005 Column

Austin Most Covertly Racist City in Texas

"...is just a continuation of the same discrimination and segregation that has existed in Austin since before the Civil..."

May 3, 2005 Postmarks

Point Austin: Ribbonless

On or off the dais, looking for a little wisdom along Austin's color line

"...on the Eastside – which led to much greater segregation."..."

April 22, 2005 News Column by Michael King

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A tainted prayer for the new year

"...in that party was made up of aggressively conservative, pro-segregation Dixiecrats. The United States is and has long been..."

Dec. 31, 2004 Column by Louis Black

The Supremes Take a Hit

The federalist smoke from medical marijuana reaches the Supreme Court. Can they clear the air on states' rights, pot, and the Constitution?

"...considerable recent history of "states' rights" defenses of racial segregation.)..."

Dec. 10, 2004 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Findings of Fact

The Dietz decision recounts at length the financial straits of the public schools

"...to eliminate historical language (no longer enforceable) mandating racial segregation. Those opposing the amendment argued that their real, somehow..."

Dec. 10, 2004 News Column by Michael King

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Forget the middle ground: Why don't the progressives take over the Democratic Party and make a real fight of this thing?

"...Segregation was presented as a moral position until we got..."

Nov. 12, 2004 Column by John Sayles

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A functioning democracy is a very hard thing to love, and even harder to trust

"...remnants of old-time political machines ran the cities and segregation restricted voting rights in the South?"..."

Oct. 22, 2004 Column by Louis Black

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...such a program could be implemented without resulting in segregation, a criticism that has already been leveled at the..."

Oct. 15, 2004 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Austin @ Large: To Preserve and Thrive

Alvarez and Thomas' Eastside plan needs fine-tuning, but it's about time

"...is comfortable enough with our region's cultural and economic segregation to not want to see it abolished at the..."

Oct. 15, 2004 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

Day Trips

Marshall, in the northeast corner of the state, has one of the most colorful histories of any Texas city

"...College were leaders in Texas in nonviolent protest against segregation. A sit-in at a local Woolworth's lunch counter received..."

Sept. 24, 2004 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

The Man Who Cried I Am

In this powerful, largely autobiographical novel that was originally published in 1967, award-winning author and journalist Williams crafts the story of the irrepressible 'Negro' writer Max Reddick as he fights to make a difference in the world of the press and the letters

"...successful career as he confronts personal issues of military segregation, job discrimination, interracial marriage, and spiritual self-examination. In much..."

Sept. 17, 2004 Books Review by Jay Trachtenberg

Fifty Years of the Texas Observer

"The stories told here do not recount dead issues from our shameful past," Lee Nichols writes. "Instead, we see them with here-and-now vitality, the eyes of the time."

"...founding editor Ronnie Dugger writes about Henry B. Gonzales' anti-segregation filibuster on the floor of the Lege in 1957,..."

Sept. 3, 2004 Books Review by Lee Nichols

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"...of schools' multicultural, multilingual, diversity dogma which cultivates the segregation and balkanization he and the students resent...."

July 16, 2004 Column

The Least That Money Can Buy

Prison health care is caught between growing demand and shrinking resources

"...involve the same three areas – use of administrative segregation (the prison version of time out, which can last..."

July 16, 2004 News Feature by Lucius Lomax

Ventura Needs to Get More Sleep

"...of schools' multicultural, multilingual, diversity dogma which cultivates the segregation and balkanization he and the students resent. So, he..."

July 13, 2004 Postmarks

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Liberals' core beliefs are as vital as ever, but they've forgotten how to communicate

"...Civil rights have been achieved, the consequences of historic segregation are overblown (if not actually whining), and affirmative action..."

June 11, 2004 Column by Louis Black

Unpardonable

The Bush record of 'compassionate conservatism' is amply illustrated by his clemency record in Texas

"...she was transferred to Gatesville, where there is administrative segregation – the infamous "ad-seg," for disciplinary cases.Dear Governor As..."

June 11, 2004 News Feature by Lucius Lomax

Sheet Music

"...Fox mows through the 20th century's mind-blowing cavalcade of segregation byproduct, inhumanity producing creative transcendence. The survivors of the..."

May 28, 2004 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

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Here comes SXSW. And, surprisingly, the Young Conservatives of Texas still don't like us.

"...positions). Ignoring 200 years of slavery, 100 years of segregation, and their own disdain for social engineering, YCT embraces..."

March 5, 2004 Column by Louis Black

South Austin Treasures

Green Pastures and the Broken Spoke: two old-timers getting better with age

"...beginning, but none of the typical Southern horrors of segregation and discrimination. Almost 20 years before the law demanded..."

March 5, 2004 Food Feature by Barbara Chisholm

Supports Gay Marriage

"...now are reminiscent of the American politicians who supported segregation, slavery, and the subjugation of Native Americans not that..."

Feb. 25, 2004 Postmarks

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Reducing the subject of this community's racial problems to a number of overreacting and/or racist police is a convenient way of denying our shared responsibility

"...history of race relations; the century of legal, widespread segregation; and difficulty of passing civil rights legislation. Currently, any..."

Feb. 13, 2004 Column by Louis Black

Knee, Wynn, Futrell Austin's 'A' Team

"...laws that were inappropriate," he said. "Laws that encouraged segregation, kept some school children from going to school, and..."

Feb. 6, 2004 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Topdog/Underdog

Pro Arts Collective makes Suzan-Lori Parks' Topdog / Underdog -- a play dense with racial, societal, and economic queries -- into a fast-paced and engaging hour and a half

"...American black man, thus drawing up questions of marginalization, segregation, and freedom simultaneously...."

Jan. 23, 2004 Arts Review by Heather Barfield Cole

Maps, Balls, and Testifying

The testimony gets mighty strange at the re-redistricting trial.

"...height of the civil rights era, to enact a "Segregation Forever" legislative program, and that conservatives had themselves used..."

Dec. 26, 2003 News Feature by Michael King

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"...E.g., is this different from handicapped access laws or anti-segregation laws? It's murky...."

Oct. 17, 2003 Column

Tom Delay Faces Judgment Day (O'Connor)

"...Because Frost et al. argued that their aggressive demographic segregation actually united communities of interest -- while protecting incumbents..."

Oct. 17, 2003 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

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