City Eyes $400 Million “Caps” to Build Parks Over the New I-35

Some Council members think they’ve found funding for it

"...It’s an opportunity to address the city’s history of segregation that was facilitated by construction of the highway through..."

May 16, 2025 News Feature by Austin Sanders

With Debut Novel The Slip, Lucas Schaefer Pens an Austin Epic

Local author writes of self-discovery in a changing city

"...places, including in Austin, there's a lot of racial segregation, a lot of class segregation … what happens when..."

May 6, 2025 Arts Post by Mattea Gallaway

Just a Rat in a Cage

"...an organization founded by an economist who defended the segregation of schools, Milton Friedman. Treating public education like a..."

Feb. 6, 2025 Postmarks

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

"...Brown v. Board of Education, which declared racial segregation in public schools to be unconstitutional, started as Briggs..."

Dec. 20, 2024 Column by Mr. Smarty Pants

Inside the Eastside Family Funeral Home Running Since Jim Crow

The Villaseñor family: A life’s work in death

Oct. 11, 2024 Features Feature by Neha Kondaveeti

In Politics to Win, Again and Again

Introducing the passionate people who get our local politicians elected

"...a long way toward rectifying the racial and economic segregation that’s been a plague on this city for a..."

Sept. 13, 2024 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

Day Trips: Blackwell School National Historic Site, Marfa

Texas’ newest national park honors the Mexican American community of Marfa

"...but equal” educational facilities in what was “de facto segregation.”..."

Aug. 23, 2024 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Headlines / Quote of the Week

"...that Austin has one of the highest rates of segregation between homeowners and renters in U.S. cities, KUT reported..."

June 28, 2024 News Feature

Austin Elders: Meet Stan Brooks, the 102-Year-Old World War II Vet Who’s Lived to Serve

He remembers Barton Springs before the cement

June 28, 2024 News Feature by Maggie Quinlan

Suicides in Texas Prisons Have Dramatically Increased

Brooklyn Hogrell’s mother says our prison agency failed her

"...Hogrell was housed in administrative segregation at Lane Murray, meaning solitary confinement. That was required..."

June 14, 2024 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

Austin Blocked Apartments by Houses for Years. New Rules Would Change That.

Code change would facilitate 60,000+ new units, city staff estimates

"...as an exclusionary tool that perpetuates existing patterns of segregation, reducing housing choice within High Opportunity areas by limiting..."

April 19, 2024 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Opinion: Incarcerated Women in Texas Need to Be Heard

A writer in her eighth year of solitary confinement laments widespread neglect of the experiences of women in prison

"...time family members said their loved ones remain in segregation. Guess who wasn’t included? Women in solitary. Even the..."

March 29, 2024 Column by Kwaneta Harris

Black and Latino Neighborhoods Face Worse Air Pollution, Study Finds

Highways, plants in East Austin fuel health inequality

"...legacy of I-35 both as a tool of racial segregation and as a driver of bad health. If the..."

March 22, 2024 News Post by Lina Fisher

Ricky Smith Tried to Escape Prison Three Times. Is 30 Years In Solitary Confinement Enough?

His last attempt was in 1993

"...many years, solitary confinement (called security detention or administrative segregation depending on the year) has been described as a..."

March 22, 2024 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

“Music America” Exhibition Makes National Debut at LBJ Library

Exhibit details American music history through memorabilia and sound

"...journey to life with significant tunes. The horrors of segregation in mid-century America swell in Sam Cooke’s unflinching “A..."

Feb. 14, 2024 Music Post by Miranda Garza

Bonus Bad News: I-35 Expansion Will Be a Thorn in Austin’s Side for Years to Come

Expensive, environmentally destructive, and unpopular plan persists

"...environment and Austin's mobility goals, and reifies historic racial segregation between East and West Austin. Building caps and stitches..."

Dec. 15, 2023 News Feature by Lina Fisher

Unheard Witness

The untold story of Charles Whitman’s wife is one of domestic violence red flags

"...and what people were protesting at the time (racial segregation, for one)...."

Nov. 17, 2023 Arts Feature by Kat McNevins

Vote No on Vouchers

"...choice” has long been a whistle call for school segregation – in which affluent, mostly white, parents are subsidized..."

Oct. 3, 2023 Postmarks

South African Wine Shines at Cape Bottle Room

East Austin shop focuses on an under-the-radar wine region

"...Africa has a terrible history of discrimination and racial segregation that has affected all of its national industries. Declusin..."

Aug. 4, 2023 Food Feature by Taylor Tobin

The League

The history of the Negro Baseball League as the history of America

"...League, but we also understand how the pressures of segregation and wartime industrialization drove Black America to create their..."

July 21, 2023 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

Opinion: Austin’s Nature Gap

Access to nature isn't equitable, particularly for low-income and minority neighborhoods. We can do better for our kids.

"...a family, Austin also faces significant racial and economic segregation. In particular, low-income Hispanic and Black residents are overwhelmingly..."

June 16, 2023 Column by Kathleen Schneeman

Day Trips & Beyond: June Events Roundup

School’s out and June is the beginning of summer fun

"...dwindled to just a handful. In the days of segregation, the juke joints were semi-secret, backwoods places run by..."

June 1, 2023 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

Little Richard: I Am Everything

Biography of the architect of rock & roll is built on shaky foundations

"...a preacher/bootlegger in Macon, Georgia, at the height of segregation, become one of the first rock & roll stars?..."

April 28, 2023 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Film Review: Little Richard: I Am Everything

The architect of rock & roll gets a detailed but thin biography

"...a preacher/bootlegger in Macon, Georgia at the height of segregation, become one of the first rock & roll stars?..."

March 16, 2023 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

The Luv Doc: Private School

Fueled by a heady blood rush of Dunning-Kruger hubris

"...suddenly has a huge boner for school vouchers (aka "segregation vouchers" by people who aren't hopelessly or willfully naive)...."

March 3, 2023 Column by The Luv Doc

Sundance 2023 Review: Little Richard: I Am Everything

The architect of rock & roll gets his flowers in new documentary

"...a preacher/bootlegger in Macon, Georgia at the height of segregation, become one of the first rock & roll stars?..."

Jan. 24, 2023 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Public Notice: Putting the Pieces in Place

Council members sorting out their staffs, priorities

"...elements of the built environment can help decrease economic segregation, increase equity, and keep Austin weird," with city Displacement..."

Jan. 20, 2023 News Column by Nick Barbaro

The Mayor’s Race Offers Clear Choices on How Austin Should Grow

Election marks a critical juncture on the way to Austin's future

"...city's first master plan in 1928, which made racial segregation the city's official policy, up to the more recent..."

Oct. 14, 2022 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Race and Class Inform Disparities in Road Deaths

All crises are not created equal

"...These decisions included the city's 1928 plan, which codified segregation by creating a "negro district"; redlining, discriminatory lending supported..."

Sept. 2, 2022 News Feature by Benton Graham

Back to School With Queer Austinites

Queer Austin artists and icons give their two cents on surviving ATX

"...prevalent in Austin (such as the city’s persistent racial segregation and the over-policing of Black and Brown communities) I..."

Aug. 18, 2022 Qmmunity Post by James Scott

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