Hit Brewery Row to Choose Your Own Austin FC Home Match Beer Adventure

How to get a little matchy-matchy with the city's first top-tier sports club and its many superb beer options

"...Fairweather and around the block from Oskar Blues. But segregation from the breweries and Q2 might not come until..."

June 18, 2021 Features Feature by Eric Puga

As Austin's I-35 Mess Gains National Attention, the City Refocuses on the Palm District

Applying an "equity lens" to reimagine the blocks alongside Austin's gnarliest highway

"...the larger trends impacting Austin's communities of color, including segregation, disinvestment, facility closings, neighborhood disruption, redevelopment, gentrification and displacement."..."

June 4, 2021 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

City Council and Staff Push and Pull Over Campsites and Transit Oriented Development

OK, how about here?

"...engagement method that favors those structures could "reinforce economic segregation and perpetuate the feedback loop of institutionalized poverty."..."

June 4, 2021 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Austin Leans in Hard to Change TxDOT’s Mind on I-35

The road not taken

"...the city repair its damaged urban fabric, reduce its segregation and inequities, and reorient itself toward a less car-centered..."

April 2, 2021 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Headlines / Quote of the Week

"...Means was a lifelong educator and protested to end segregation in local schools. She helped co-found St. James' Episcopal..."

March 19, 2021 News Feature

Moment of Silence

"...that. No one deserves to live like this. End segregation, inequalities & the disparate distribution of services in Austin..."

Feb. 24, 2021 Postmarks

Local Writer Makes Black History Month Accessible to All

Autumn Arnett knows there are stories to be told

"...Feb. 1: "Greensboro Four" protest racial segregation at an N.C. lunch counter..."

Feb. 12, 2021 News Feature by Clara Ence Morse

Austin at Large: The Way We Got Here

On the journey to today’s Austin, Ron Davis helped make the road by walking

"...Much is made today of the segregation and injustice first put to paper in the 1928..."

Feb. 12, 2021 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

The Eighth Street Survivors

They came out to protest police brutality. They were met by a life-altering wave of police violence. Eight months later, they still await justice and change.

"...West that symbolizes Austin's historic and systemic racism and segregation – to shut it down...."

Feb. 5, 2021 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

A Church and Its People on Austin's Eastside

The living history of David Chapel

"...an all-Black enterprise in the thick of Fifties Southern segregation. When Chase graduated, no architectural firms would hire him,..."

Dec. 25, 2020 News Feature by Lina Fisher

Record Number of Votes Were Cast in AISD Board Races. The Run-Offs Will Be a Different Story.

Lower voter turnout may intensify already close races

"...arguing that boundaries only worked to perpetuate racism and segregation. Herschenfeld, a newcomer to Austin who served on the..."

Nov. 13, 2020 News Feature by Clara Ence Morse

The Sword and the Shield Shows Malcolm X and MLK Were More Alike Than Different

Dr. Peniel E. Joseph's book argues that the civil rights leaders are two sides of the same revolutionary coin

"...they're calling out racial violence, calling out poverty and segregation, but there's aspects of patriarchy that are normalized within..."

Nov. 6, 2020 Arts Feature by Sara Hutchinson

Texas Book Festival 2020: Mychal Denzel Smith

A conversation with the author of Stakes Is High

"...how the ways they were limited, the ways that segregation gets reinforced in northern cities. We don't talk about..."

Nov. 4, 2020 Arts Post by Evan Rodriguez

Council Weighs Choices on Eastside Housing and SAVES Fund

Trying to find the best worst option

"...types of projects as a way of undoing the segregation caused by single-family zoning, which she characterized as "absolutely..."

Oct. 16, 2020 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Chronicle Endorsements for the November General Election

Our picks for the local, state, and national races you'll see on your ballot

"...see as recreation rather than transportation. Our city's income segregation, inequitable distribution of infrastructure and access to public services,..."

Oct. 2, 2020 News Feature by The Chronicle Editorial Board

Disturbin' the Urbanists

"...community. Wanting to remove regulations that are rooted in segregation does not make someone a libertarian, and if that’s..."

Sept. 20, 2020 Postmarks

So You Want to Redistrict Austin?

The process – and what’s at stake – with redrawing our City Council districts

"...farther into the suburbs now. [We have] an urban-sprawl segregation where the sprawl keeps pushing people farther and farther..."

Sept. 18, 2020 News Feature by Lilli Hime

Four Open Seats, and Many Demands for Change at AISD

School board shakeup

"...one main purpose, and that is to perpetuate housing segregation."..."

Aug. 28, 2020 News Feature by Clara Ence Morse

The Challenges of Going Back to School

Parents, teachers, and students share their anxieties over starting the fall semester while COVID-19 is still rampant

"...there are great disparities in COVID risk due to segregation of the city. Schools in areas with low case..."

Aug. 7, 2020 Features Feature

Council Recap: Undoing Austin’s White Supremacist Legacy

A Juneteenth holiday, renamings, alcohol rules among changes

"...between the city’s founding and now, Harper-Madison said, legal segregation, racial terrorism, divestment and displacement from Black communities, and..."

July 31, 2020 News Post by Austin Sanders

University of Texas Announces Plan to Promote Diversity on Campus

Several student demands remain unfulfilled, including divesting from police and removing alma mater roots in minstrelsy

"...Brown v. Board of Education in 1954, which outlawed segregation in public schools. With no regard for irony, UT..."

July 17, 2020 News Feature by Selome Hailu

Pink Floyd's Roger Waters Gets Political With the Chronicle

He should be a prime-time news analyst. Televisions would melt.

"...started coming to the U.S. in the late Sixties? Segregation equaled apartheid, and on top of that the country..."

March 20, 2020 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

SXSW Announces Midnighters, VR And More

Time to get dark and artistic with the latest film wave

"...many believe were originally planted as a totem of segregation. (World Premiere)..."

Feb. 5, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

How the Red River Cultural District Was Made

Decades of off-kilter activity and music activism culminate in our current concert hub

"...flow was inclusion," he writes. "During the era of segregation, black-owned businesses were next door to white-owned ones on..."

Jan. 31, 2020 Features Feature by Rachel Rascoe

Public Notice: Transit for Art for Transit

Call to artists: Jump into the billion-dollar pool

"...practices (including the 1928 plan, redlining, restrictive covenants, school segregation and attendance boundaries, etc.). Having such a tool, in..."

Jan. 17, 2020 News Column by Nick Barbaro

Austin at Large: Equity Is Everybody’s Business

We the people of Austin own the future of our schools

"...currently built and operated, perpetuates historic inequity, supremacy, and segregation because Austin does too. That's not to set aside..."

Dec. 27, 2019 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

City Council Gets a Breather Before LDC Frenzy

The dais faces a marathon of meetings covering everything from the land use code to APD racism

"...LDC that are "inextricably tied to our history of segregation." Specific census tracts identified in "Uprooted" would be used..."

Nov. 29, 2019 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Hold AISD Accountable

"...allow this? Please bring light to the problem of segregation still present in the city and school system. This..."

Oct. 2, 2019 Postmarks

AISD's "School Changes" Process Places Equity Front and Center

“Historically, this is a very racist city, and unfortunately, this school district is a part of that system"

"...way. That includes acknowledging the legacy and reality of segregation in Austin. "Historically, this is a very racist city,"..."

Sept. 13, 2019 News Feature by Austin Sanders

AISD Mystery

"...starting points to simultaneously address campus underpopulation and economic segregation. Only after that should we consider shuttering schools, which..."

Sept. 9, 2019 Postmarks

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