In October 1990, I moved to Travis Heights, a neighborhood south of the Colorado River in Austin, Texas. I lived upstairs in an old house on Newning Avenue for about 18 months before departing when it was turned into a bed-and-breakfast hotel...
In the spring of 1978, I moved to Durham, North Carolina. My reasons for having done so seem dubious in retrospect. It was not unlike when I went to Lexington, Kentucky the year before. Both were southern college towns—the University of...
I was a student at Hill Junior High School in 1967 when the American Basketball Association was formed. This would be of no consequence had the Dallas Chaparrals not been a member of the league. I was an enthusiastic supporter from the start...
Through the mid-1960s, I did not know what “segregation” was but I could look around and see there were no black people in our east Dallas neighborhood. And since it was not exactly a sociopolitical hotbed, nobody made a fuss or...
April 27, 2005 Darrell Royal University of Texas University Station Austin, TX 78712 Dear Coach Royal: I am prompted to write this letter because of the recent death of Prentice Gautt, the first black football player at your...
Six years after college graduation, I was washing dishes at the Capital Oyster Bar in downtown Austin. Not exactly on the fast track to the top, was I? Some kind of change was in order, so I quit my job and took a long drive—4,200 miles...
I encountered Roland Wood in the summer of 2005. I was driving my old Mazda south on San Jacinto Boulevard in central Austin and was zooming by when I caught sight of him: a big black guy slouched over in a wheelchair. Downtrodden people are...
1. Dallas White Rock Marathon / December 4, 1988…….……..……..2:48:02 (68) 2. Houston Marathon / January 5...
College football got its start in 1869 when Princeton and Rutgers faced off in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Soon adopting the sport were Harvard, Yale, Cornell, Michigan and many others. And while the identity of the first black player at...
AncoraThemes © 2025. All Rights Reserved
