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

Ray Manzarek: Trying to Set the World on Fire

The late Doors keyboardist at the Garden of Eden

"...especially in the Fifties with the Red Scare or segregation or any of that, affect your life?..."

May 23, 2013 Music Post by Danielle Zelisko

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

42

Jackie Robinson's story is told as a socially conscious moral tale about the malevolence of segregation.

"...tale about the pervasive evil and sheer malevolence of segregation. Intellectually admirable, this is also the easiest path to..."

April 12, 2013 Movie Review by Louis Black

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

AISD: Board Approves Sex Segregation

AISD board approves three single-sex schools on Eastside

Feb. 1, 2013 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

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

Page Two: 'Life,' the Universe, Everything

The devastating illumination of Terrence Malick's new film

"...the American South during the century of Jim Crow segregation. My parents, sisters, and I were not slaves nor..."

June 3, 2011 Column by Louis Black

QueerBomb/Pride Roundtable: Extended Remix

QueerBomb and Austin Pride meet for a roundtable

"...– that I know of – any form of segregation, like, this is the adults-only area and you have..."

June 3, 2011 Features Feature by Kate X Messer

Point Austin: We Have Just Begun To Fight

The budget battles are only skirmishes in the long march toward democracy

"...with those whose idea of reform is the subtle segregation of the poor and desperate. I want no part..."

March 18, 2011 News Column by Michael King

Res Publica

Citizens' calendar, March 17-24

"...and organizations together to celebrate Austin's diversity as the segregation of our communities becomes a thing of the past...."

March 18, 2011 News Column

Proud To Be 'Unacceptable'

Superintendent Kuhn delivers rousing speech

"...with those whose idea of reform is the subtle segregation of the poor and desperate. I want no part..."

March 18, 2011 News Feature

Headlines

"...have used the 10th Amendment "to justify slavery, school segregation, poll taxes, and literacy tests."..."

March 11, 2011 News Feature

The Daily Hustle: 2/8/11

Austin's past, present & Comp Plan future

"...essentially arguing the city may be replacing the grotesque segregation of its infamous 1920s-era city plan with a new,..."

Feb. 8, 2011 News Post by Wells Dunbar

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