Collateral Damage

Assessing the cost of service for minority veterans

"...racial disparities persist. Paralleling the civilian experience for minorities, segregation, lack of opportunity, and inequality in training and education..."

July 17, 2015 News Feature by Kahron Spearman

Point Austin: Racism and Heroism

Reflecting on the Charleston massacre

"...the Confederacy itself – to maintain Jim Crow and segregation. Should it all be thrown down? Not even possible,..."

June 26, 2015 News Column by Michael King

Mat Johnson: Black & White & Read All Over

Our interview with the Houston-based author

"...the fact that there’s really a kind of antiquated segregation in publishing. So that’s part of it. The other..."

June 18, 2015 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Foodie Is an Ethnocentric Word

Searching for diversity in culinary Austin

"..."Institutional racism and segregation has had an impact on both races. We're just..."

April 17, 2015 Food Feature by Rachel Feit

Public Notice: Schools and Environment

Big Saturday events for education and environment

"...this week, Mayor Steve Adler noted Austin's growing economic segregation, and declared it our "fundamental moral and ethical responsibility"..."

April 17, 2015 News Column by Nick Barbaro

Been Happening For Decades

"...the Seventies. And, we have been aware of this segregation between the west and east sides of town since..."

April 12, 2015 Postmarks

Design for Living

Fusebox Festival creates a pop-up village as part of its thinkEAST Living Charrette

"...to live/work space to transportation to community health to segregation – so many of these issues that are front..."

April 3, 2015 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The AggreGAYtor: March 26

What happened today in gay? Here’s your QILTBAG recap of queer news.

"...Indiana is on the road to segregation...."

March 26, 2015 Qmmunity Post by David Estlund

The AggreGAYtor: March 19

What happened today in gay? Here’s your QILTBAG recap of queer news.

"...list, the Texas Lege makes the naughty list, and segregation makes a comeback, as your AggreGAYtor celebrates the horror...."

March 19, 2015 Qmmunity Post by David Estlund

Simple Sundries

Glass Half Full's simple bird-meets-girl story is more complex than it appears

"...pointed exploration of what price progress; issues of economic segregation, gentrification, and commercialism aren't delved into very deeply. Simple..."

March 13, 2015 Arts Review by Robert Faires

The AggreGAYtor: March 11

What happened today in gay? Here’s your QILTBAG recap of queer news.

"...for LGBTQ civil rights to the fight to end segregation...."

March 11, 2015 Qmmunity Post by David Estlund

Headlines

"...Prosperity Institute – "Segregated City: The Geography of Economic Segregation in America's Metros" – identifies the Austin-Round Rock metropolitan..."

Feb. 27, 2015 News Feature

Entertaining Angels

Skylark Lounge pianist Margaret Wright plays divine

"...inclusive in the face of a life that endured segregation, a practice illegal in structure but remaining in strategy...."

Feb. 20, 2015 Music Feature by Kahron Spearman

Death Waits for No Plan

Austin works on making its cemeteries more accessible to the public

"...corner was reserved as the "colored cemetery." That was segregation in the soil, but that wasn't enough in the..."

Feb. 6, 2015 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

The AggreGAYtor: January 22

What happened today in gay? Here’s your QILTBAG recap of queer news.

"...Segregation is not the answer for queer students...."

Jan. 22, 2015 Qmmunity Post by David Estlund

Connecting a Whole Community

Austin and Google Fiber move to bridge the digital divide

"...city's digital divide. Taking into account the city's structural segregation, the authors delve into the unintended consequences of Austin's..."

Jan. 23, 2015 News Feature by Mary Tuma

Hunting for Housing

Landlord lawsuit and housing research frame housing crisis

"...housing on minorities and the disabled; historical patterns of segregation; overly complex land-use regulations; and private market practices (e.g.,..."

Jan. 9, 2015 News Feature by Mary Tuma

News Roundup: Schools, Fair(?) Housing, and Plastic

TEA releases rankings, Linda Curtis returns, and more

"...impact on minorities and the disabled; historical patterns of segregation; overly complex land-use regulations; and private market practices (e.g.,..."

Dec. 29, 2014 News Post by the News Staff

Headlines

"...biased treatment of affirmative action, portraying Islam negatively, downplaying segregation, and undermining the constitutional concept of the separation of..."

Sept. 19, 2014 News Feature

Panel Finds 'Serious Flaws' in SBOE-Backed Social Studies Textbooks

Independent reviewers find more than a dozen factual distortions

"...also downplay the serious hardships faced by African-Americans during segregation...."

Sept. 10, 2014 News Post by Mary Tuma

TCDP Holds Police Accountability Forum

APD goes on the defensive

"...Given Austin’s dwindling black population and its history of segregation, his point was especially salient. Police Monitor Margo Frasier..."

Sept. 4, 2014 News Post by Amy Kamp

It's aGLIFF Time Again

The 27th annual fest of LGBTQ films begins

"...women can go see that program? It feels like segregation. I didn't want to separate our audiences. If you..."

Sept. 5, 2014 Arts Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

For Procreation’s Sake, Abbott Appeals Same-Sex Marriage Ruling

State champions marriage equality ban

"...Virginia’s ban on same-sex marriage, comparing the law to “segregation.” Similarly, the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a..."

July 31, 2014 News Post by Mary Tuma

The Road to 10-1: Catching Up

Who’s in, who’s out, who’s who?

"...for the business class.” He’s an African-American who recalls segregation and Jim Crow, and says the city is still..."

July 28, 2014 News Post by Michael King

SBOE: No Scholars Need Apply

SBOE members nominated several unqualified panelists to a social studies textbook review committee.

"...the "Moral Majority"); and only a passing reference to segregation...."

July 25, 2014 News Feature by Mary Tuma

Know Your Culinary Matriarchs

Meet some of the women who helped shape Austin's culinary consciousness

"...to be available to everyone at a time when segregation was the norm. From 1948 until the present day,..."

July 11, 2014 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood

The Road to 10-1: Add One More …

Candidate pilgrimage grows, and a glance at District 4

"...Casar said, and that means working to lessen economic segregation, to avoid splitting the city into two kinds of..."

June 30, 2014 News Post by Michael King

Cold Sweat

Where have all our black clubs gone?

"...exactly when this city, with its long-running history of segregation and prejudicial practices, began to witness the demise of..."

June 13, 2014 Music Feature by Chase Hoffberger

The Plantation at Comal Bluff

Sneed House ruins tell a story beneath and behind modern Austin

"...school years, the state's intimate relationship with slavery and segregation was rarely, if ever, mentioned?..."

May 23, 2014 News Feature by Sam Ramos

The AggreGAYtor: May 20

What happened today in gay? Here’s your QILTBAG recap of queer news.

"...John Kerry compares homo/transphobia to Jim Crow...."

May 20, 2014 Qmmunity Post by David Estlund

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