Austin civil rights leader Bertha Sadler Means dies at age 100 statesman.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from statesman.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Rapper, activist and East Austin native Nook Turner at a press conference announcing the creation of the Black Austin Coalition, a group that s called on the city to formally address systemic racism in its historical policies – and invest more intentionally in Black Austin communities.
The Austin City Council has formally apologized for its role in perpetuating racist policies that contributed to historical equity, health and wealth gaps that persist for Black Austinites.
The resolution, which passed unanimously, also directs the city to quantify the impact of systemic racism in real dollars and invest in an effort to build a Black embassy in East Austin, which would serve as a resource center for Black residents.
Frost Bank, Spurs Give award Huston-Tillotson University $100K grant
By Cory Dinkel
AUSTIN, Texas - Frost Bank and Spurs Give have partnered to award Huston-Tillotson University (HT) a $100,000 grant.
This grant is a continuation of Frost Bank and Spurs Give’s commitment to Operation Renovation, which they say strives to enhance facility infrastructures that provide students with safe places to play and learn, while acquiring the valuable life lessons gained through teamwork and competition.
HT is Austin’s oldest institution of higher learning and the only historically black college and university located in Central Texas. HT says the funding will be used to renovate existing areas and create new spaces that promote physical, mental and emotional well-being for students.
City of Austin apologizes for role in disenfranchising Black people fox7austin.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from fox7austin.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The Austin
City Council has officially apologized for the role the city has played and may still be playing to disenfranchise
Black Austinites – from the city’s founding in 1839, when the local economy depended on slave labor, through today as disparities between Black and white Austinites persist.
As in all Texas cities, Austin’s early economy relied on the labor of enslaved people, working in agriculture around Central Texas and to haul those goods to market. After Emancipation (commemorated in Texas with the observance of
Juneteenth), freedom settlements of Black men and women grew in places on all sides of the 19th-century urban core – such as