/tags/segregation Segregation en-US Copyright KUT News 2025 Thu, 22 May 2025 10:01:00 GMT /austin/2025-05-22/atxplained-austin-tx-barton-springs-pool-segregation-desegregation-joan-means-khabele Austin's crown jewel has bought people together from all walks of life to enjoy a day in the sun. But before 1962, that wasn't the case. Thu, 22 May 2025 10:01:00 GMT /austin/2025-05-22/atxplained-austin-tx-barton-springs-pool-segregation-desegregation-joan-means-khabele Luz Moreno-Lozano /austin/2024-06-25/austin-has-a-high-rate-of-segregation-between-homeowners-and-renters-study-finds A third of neighborhoods in the Austin metro are what researchers call "rental deserts," or neighborhoods where it’s difficult to find a home for rent. Tue, 25 Jun 2024 10:03:00 GMT /austin/2024-06-25/austin-has-a-high-rate-of-segregation-between-homeowners-and-renters-study-finds Audrey McGlinchy /austin/2023-06-22/two-paragraphs-forced-black-residents-to-east-austin-exploding-real-estate-prices-forced-them-out Austin has grown a lot in recent years â€� and the East Side has been impacted the most. To understand the city's pattern of displacement, we have to go back to 1928. Thu, 22 Jun 2023 10:01:00 GMT /austin/2023-06-22/two-paragraphs-forced-black-residents-to-east-austin-exploding-real-estate-prices-forced-them-out Marisa Charpentier, Audrey McGlinchy /texas/2022-10-05/hispanic-students-were-once-segregated-at-this-school-now-it-will-be-a-historic-site Former students at the Blackwell School in Marfa, Texas, who were once banned from speaking Spanish, have worked for years to preserve the school's history. Wed, 05 Oct 2022 15:39:03 GMT /texas/2022-10-05/hispanic-students-were-once-segregated-at-this-school-now-it-will-be-a-historic-site AGÕæÈË°Ù¼ÒÀÖ Bubenik /education/2022-07-14/the-u-s-student-population-is-more-diverse-but-schools-are-still-highly-segregated A new report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office finds that public schools remain highly segregated along racial, ethnic and socioeconomic lines. One reason: school district secession. Thu, 14 Jul 2022 22:56:26 GMT /education/2022-07-14/the-u-s-student-population-is-more-diverse-but-schools-are-still-highly-segregated Sequoia Carrillo, Pooja Salhotra /austin/2022-04-08/the-austinite-who-helped-desegregate-barton-springs-pool-will-be-honored-on-saturday Joan Means Khabele swam in Barton Springs Pool as an act of civil disobedience, sparking weekly swim-ins during the summer of 1960 that ultimately led to the pool's integration. Fri, 08 Apr 2022 10:01:00 GMT /austin/2022-04-08/the-austinite-who-helped-desegregate-barton-springs-pool-will-be-honored-on-saturday Lauren Terrazas /transportation/2022-02-02/austin-to-spend-65-million-this-year-to-reduce-displacement-near-future-transit-lines Years before construction crews break ground on a multi-billion dollar light-rail system in Austin, the city is about to spend millions trying to prevent people from being priced out of their neighborhoods. Wed, 02 Feb 2022 11:01:00 GMT /transportation/2022-02-02/austin-to-spend-65-million-this-year-to-reduce-displacement-near-future-transit-lines Nathan Bernier /crime-justice/2021-11-17/racial-covenants-a-relic-of-the-past-are-still-on-the-books-across-the-country Racial covenants made it illegal for Black people to live in white neighborhoods. Now they're illegal, but you might still have one on your home's deed. And they're hard to remove. Wed, 17 Nov 2021 20:59:21 GMT /crime-justice/2021-11-17/racial-covenants-a-relic-of-the-past-are-still-on-the-books-across-the-country Cheryl W. Thompson, Cristina Kim, Cristina Kim, Natalie Moore, Roxana Popescu, Corinne Ruff /austin/2021-09-29/austins-racial-segregation-continued-over-the-last-decade-new-census-data-shows Between 2010 and 2020, Black and Hispanic residents moved farther east toward Austin's city limits. Wed, 29 Sep 2021 22:03:06 GMT /austin/2021-09-29/austins-racial-segregation-continued-over-the-last-decade-new-census-data-shows Audrey McGlinchy /crime-justice/2021-01-05/negroes-sign-in-waxahachie-courthouse-leads-to-controversy-over-its-preservation-and-defacement A county judge is under investigation for defacing the sign that was preserved as evidence of the area’s segregationist past. Tue, 05 Jan 2021 21:31:53 GMT /crime-justice/2021-01-05/negroes-sign-in-waxahachie-courthouse-leads-to-controversy-over-its-preservation-and-defacement Rhonda Fanning, Alexandra Hart, Caroline Covington