Tag Archives: racism
Here are the Highlights from Ahmed Mohamed’s Blistering New Lawsuit
Featuring America's history of racial oppression, the poem from the Statue of Liberty and a few f-bombs.
A suit over the arrest of Ahmed Mohamed, who brought a homemade clock to school, puts it all in the context of America's history of racism. (Also, f-bombs.)...Read More
The Texas Miracle #13: Would Jesus Say Black Lives Matter?
This week on the podcast: Our resident theologian unpacks the Beatitudes for the 'Blue Lives Matter' crowd, while Prairie View remembers Sandra Bland on the anniversary of her death.
Our resident theologian unpacks the Beatitudes for the 'Blue Lives Matter' crowd, and Black activists and scholars join us for a racial justice roundtable....Read More
Blackface Photos Spark Controversy Over Racism at Houston High School
White students say peers who painted their faces black and Snapchatted a photo with the caption "Black niggas" aren't racist, but rather wearing "shadow."...Read More
Austin Improv Show Gets Serious on Social Issues
Improvisers take on race, gender and cultural prejudice in a new sell-out show that satirizes the "white savior" genre of do-gooder films....Read More
Will Georgetown’s ‘Old South Ball’ Rise Again?
The organizer of Georgetown's "Old South Ball" doesn't seem to have paid much heed to protesters who said the Civil War-themed party glorified slavery....Read More
A Year of Cops in the Classroom
This was a national conversation, a slice of the broader debate over police violence and systemic impunity, but it’s a Texas story, too — both for better an...Read More
Closing Our Doors, Closing Our Minds to Syrian Refugees
No statement from the Governor’s Mansion in the last year summoned as much bile in my well-worn throat as Abbott’s vociferous declarations that Texas would ...Read More
It’s Not ‘P.C.’, but White Communities are in Crisis
It’s happened again — another story of organized crime and violence in the white community. This time the threat is very close to home. In our own backyard,...Read More
The Grimes Scene: White and Wrong on Racism in Texas
Demands for equity, demands to be treated as human, aren’t acts of violence, however much they may disturb us white Texans who are too comfortable in our own ...Read More