Council Recap: So Many Decisions Still Unmade

Homelessness, East 11th and 12th development, and Statesman PUD in focus

"...and 12th streets – Austin's old Black Downtown during segregation, now in the heart of diverse, hip, gentrifying Central..."

Aug. 5, 2022 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Review: Trouble Puppet Theater Co.’s Undark: A Radioactive Puppet Play

Henson-backed world premiere recounts a workers' rights fight

"...vs. Goliath battles with the Man over workers’ rights, segregation, and sexual harassment didn’t become common knowledge until their..."

May 31, 2022 Arts Post by Bob Abelman

Honoring the Activist Who Sparked the Integration of Barton Springs Pool

The city celebrated Joan Means Khabele life and legacy last Saturday

"...coming to Barton Springs because of the history of segregation," Gilzow said. "And we see acknowledgment and representation as..."

April 15, 2022 News Feature by Hannah Uebele

Council Gets Briefed on Controversial I-35 Expansion Plans

Let the road rage commence

"...concerns, including how I-35 has been an instrument of segregation in Austin and an increasingly unsustainable way of moving..."

Sept. 3, 2021 News Feature by Austin Sanders

LBJ Library at 50: An Interview With Mark A. Lawrence

The Library's current director takes a historian's view

"...that anymore. What did poverty feel like? What did segregation feel like? Not to say that people don’t experience..."

Aug. 26, 2021 Arts Post by Robert Faires

With Equity in Mind, Austin Embarks on Bringing Its History Up to Date

So many more stories to tell

"...the area evolved over many decades, before and during segregation, as a home to not only Black and Mexican..."

July 2, 2021 News Feature by Clara Ence Morse

Public Notice: How Austin Ranks

What a new report about racial segregation says about our city

"...at 73rd (so in the bottom 40% for racial segregation). The study also found that the Austin metro region..."

June 25, 2021 News Column by Nick Barbaro

All Light, Everywhere

Chilling and insightful look at the birth of our surveillance culture

"...the eponymous rodent to discuss social experimentation and the segregation of his hometown of Baltimore. All Light, Everywhere, his..."

June 18, 2021 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

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

Council Recap: A Not-Just-Symbolic Promise to Lift Up Black Austin

Apologies and remedies for a long legacy of oppression

"...what is today Central East Austin. This de jure segregation gradually starved out of existence the other freedom settlements..."

March 5, 2021 News Post by Austin Sanders

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

The History and Historiography of MLK/FBI

Sam Pollard on the changing challenges of recording Black history

"...in the north, trying to break the back of segregation. He has a tremendous amount of strong, important foot..."

Jan. 20, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

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

A New Plan for Austin ISD?

School board elections tee up calls for change – and rebuilding broken trust

"...racism, in the legacy of Austin's past de jure segregation?..."

Oct. 16, 2020 News Feature by Clara Ence Morse

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

Stressed Out? Let Your Freak-Out Flag Fly!

Making stress into a friend instead of a foe

"...in factors such as racism, state violence and overpolicing, segregation, poverty, and unequal access to health care – what..."

Oct. 2, 2020 Features Feature by Nora Ankrum

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

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