Justice Matters

In our ongoing series Renewal – Justice Matters we explore the longstanding failure of Austin and America to address systemic racism in policing, education, housing and other institutions — and what to do about it now.

‘This is all of our shame, this is all of our concern’

David Judson - June 3, 2020

Sometimes they spoke eloquently. Sometimes they struggled. Sometimes they wandered and searched for words...

This national moment of grief and mourning can become a marker of public shame or a symbol of American renewal

Dr. Peniel E. Joseph - June 1, 2020

American cities are in upheaval, awakened by the duel pandemics of COVID-19 and white supremacy, which has resulted in 40 million people out of work and the spectacle of George Floyd’s death at the hands of the Minneapolis police.

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‘Caste,’ an election and the resonance of racism below the surface of liberal, progressive America

Republicans like Sen. Ted Cruz once stood up to Donald Trump — they need to do so again for our democracy

How to make America radical again (and how to remember that in fact it always has been)

The just society and knowledge economy now towering on the post-pandemic horizon

As the fog at last lifts, the future begins to arrive much sooner than we ever expected

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How the old ‘all politics is local’ became today’s ‘all local politics are global’

Gentrification is not a byproduct of planned urban growth, it is the plan

Austin’s challenge: a common language of environmental sustainability

Austin may condemn its sordid history — it should condemn its troubled present

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