What Ted Cruz Doesn't Know About Apartheid

And it's not just what the word means

"...matters, but the international condemnation of the rule of segregation. In this reading, Cruz is saying that the entity..."

May 2, 2014 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Point Austin: Stayed on Freedom

Considering the LBJ legacy

"...1964 Act abolished (in law) most forms of racial segregation; it was followed in 1965 by the Voting Rights..."

April 11, 2014 News Column by Michael King

SXSWedu: Weingarten and Ravitch on Schools

Highlights from the education conference

"...choice it was Strom Thurmond and George Wallace defending segregation. Now she sees a new wave of virtual charter..."

March 7, 2014 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Jackie Robinson's Austin

The All-American, Major League star and human rights hero spent a few youthful months on the east side of our city's 'Mason-Dixon Line'

"...and did everything from breaking baseball's longstanding adherence to segregation to stealing home in a World Series game (thereby..."

Feb. 21, 2014 News Feature by Chase Hoffberger

AISD Going Out on a Limb

Single-sex schools aren't all they're cracked up to be

"...goes further, noting that "there is evidence that sex segregation increases gender stereotyping and legitimizes institutional sexism."..."

Feb. 7, 2014 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Black History Month and Austin's Dirty Laundry

KLRU launches online series featuring ATX civil rights leaders

"...U.S., Austin has a long and dirty history of segregation, the results of which are still visible today. It’s..."

Feb. 5, 2014 Screens Post by Sarah Marloff

Top 10 Education Stories

Mack Brown, Meria Carstarphen, and the rest of the gang

"...5) The New Segregationists In January, AISD trustees took the controversial vote to..."

Jan. 3, 2014 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Father Time

Claude van Lingen's conceptual artwork counts down from 1,000

"...the 12-year-old apartheid government – apartheid being the systematized segregation and resettlement of, and state-sanctioned violence toward, non-white South..."

Dec. 20, 2013 Arts Feature by Andy Campbell

Swamp Dogg Lotions Up

After midnight at the Continental Club Friday & Saturday

"...near everybody, all of my idols, only because of segregation. The upside was I got to meet these people..."

Nov. 1, 2013 Music Post by Thomas Fawcett

Eckhardt Father and Daughter Day at Scholz

A centennial celebration provides platform to stump for county judge

"...Barrientos lauded his legal work helping to end the segregation of Hispanic school students in Texas, and Schwartz cut..."

Oct. 4, 2013 News Feature by Amy Smith

Celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the March on Washington With This New Graphic Novel

John Lewis pens civil rights history in new graphic novel

"...will tell the story of the nonviolent fight against segregation and racism. Told in flashback, it is deeply personal,..."

Aug. 28, 2013 Books Post by Jessi Cape

The AggreGAYtor: July 19

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

"...If Antonin Scalia had it his way, segregation would still be enforced...."

July 19, 2013 Qmmunity Post

The 'Dirty' Word

Has Dirty Sixth cleaned up its act?

"...after the Capitol was finished. In a time of segregation, many of the street's merchants were black or immigrants..."

May 24, 2013 Food Feature by Ivy Le

Moms the Word

Whoopi Goldberg on the black woman comic who started it all

"...thought to be this little old lady, talking about segregation and the Kennedys and making the world better. She..."

May 17, 2013 Arts Post by Robert Faires

What Happens Next?

As D.A. Rosemary Lehmberg serves her sentence, the county attorney takes on the civil lawsuit and the next steps

"...any other inmate in protective custody, she's housed in segregation, on a 23-hour in-cell, one-hour out-of-cell schedule. "It's no..."

May 3, 2013 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Get Down Brother

San Antonio soul vein yields a goldmine

"...early Seventies, when fierce discrimination and towering walls of segregation stood throughout the region, blacks and Latinos were remarkably..."

April 5, 2013 Music Feature by Thomas Fawcett

Familiar Features at Dallas International Film Festival

Revisit some favorites that hit Austin already

"...joining of the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947 ended racial segregation in pro baseball. Read more about its March screening..."

April 4, 2013 Screens Post by Monica Riese

Jackie Robinson's Story Hits the Paramount With '42'

Panel including movie star and Robinson's daughter to follow

"...joining of the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947 ended racial segregation in pro baseball. He is portrayed in the film..."

March 19, 2013 Screens Post by Monica Riese

Let's Mold Our Future Together

"...than Jasper, as it turns out – but that segregation is not limited to any racial group, and all..."

March 7, 2013 Postmarks

Jimmie Vaughan Suffers Heart Attack

Grammy winner is recovering at home and anxious to play

"...contingent of young white musicians connected with the capital’s post-segregation blues scene and fueled the Eighties blues revival begun..."

Jan. 31, 2013 Music Post by Margaret Moser

Headlines

"...over the lack of evidence for benefits of gender-based segregation...."

Jan. 11, 2013 News Feature

DVD Watch

Olive Films collects three of Otto Preminger's last films

"...intimidations. That the racially mixed cast were subjected to segregation in housing and hospitality in the Louisiana area where..."

Nov. 13, 2012 Screens Post by Marjorie Baumgarten

Report Highlights Inequities in AISD Funding

Title I cash and private fundraising don't align in most local schools

"..."Austin Independent School District: Inequitable Funding and Vestiges of Segregation," argues there is an underlying myth warping how cash..."

Sept. 21, 2012 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Power Play

In Robert Schenkkan's new play, LBJ roars back to life to make civil rights history

"...push to pass landmark legislation that would end racial segregation and discrimination against minorities is depicted as something that..."

Aug. 17, 2012 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Sixth Sense

Neighbors, business owners, and the city are all searching for the future of East Sixth Street

"...region – which is to say that the racial segregation formalized in the infamous 1928 city plan had persisted..."

Feb. 24, 2012 News Feature by Mike Kanin

Letters at 3AM: Occupy the Future

Corporations are not people

"...Until 1964, Southern states enforced segregation by tactics such as poll taxes. The 24th Amendment..."

Dec. 16, 2011 Column by Michael Ventura

Hercules on Two Wheels

Could bicycling be bigger than baseball again?

"...in the world” and held seven world records, battled segregation and threats both on and off his bike. He..."

Nov. 12, 2011 Sports Post by Mike Crissey

Preparing for Takeoff

Plans under way for major redo of Airport Boulevard and Highland Mall

"...to conventional zoning, which focuses on the micromanagement and segregation of land uses, to the neglect of an integrated..."

Oct. 21, 2011 News Feature by Nick Barbaro

Hairspray

Zach's irrepressibly buoyant staging may leave you dancing on air

"...with such authority, it grounds Tracy's quest to quash segregation on a television teen-dance show in the civil rights..."

July 22, 2011 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Page Two: Don't Move Here

We're Number Three!

"...not only a city "with tons of problems – segregation, gentrification, problems with affordable housing," but, worse is that..."

June 17, 2011 Column by Louis Black

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