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Thiher — and The Rag Bloggers — on Obama, Heaven, Hell
Updated April 6, 2008 by The Rag Blog The following comes to us from Gary Thiher, our compadre from the sixties and seventies who now professes philosophy in Arkansas. His comments are in response to The Left and Barack Obama … Continue reading
ALICE EMBREE : LEFT HISTORY | The Rag v. Regents
The Board of Regents did not love ‘The Rag’ and Austin’s underground newspaper did not love the Board of Regents. By Alice Embree | The Rag Blog |June 17, 2022 In 2016, former staffers held a reunion to commemorate the … Continue reading
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Tagged Alice Embree, George Vizard, Texas Board of Regents, The Rag, U.S. Supreme Court, Underground Press
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Preserve Houston’s historic underground newspaper
Read the latest on the Space City! project. By Alice Embree | The Rag Blog | March 9, 2020 HOUSTON — Did you work on Space City!, Houston’s historic underground newspaper? Did you sell it? Did you read it? Do … Continue reading
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Former civil rights activist and political street vendor Charlie Saulsberry is dead at 70
Charlie, who was well-known around the UT campus in late-’60s Austin, ‘was a lefty, but always a heretic.’ By Dick J. Reavis | The Rag Blog | March 22, 2015 Charlie Saulsberry, 70, a familiar figure on the UT-Austin campus … Continue reading
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Tagged Austin History, Charlie Saulsberry, Civil Rights Movement, Dick J. Reavis, Don Weedon, Obituary, Racism, Rag Bloggers, Remembrance, Sixties, UT-Austin
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METRO | The unforgettable voice of John Clay
John Clay, whose unique musical vision reflected a vicious honesty tempered only by his darkly innocent sense of humor, is dead at 74. By Dan and Christy Foster | The Rag Blog | January 14, 2015 AUSTIN — Austin lost its most … Continue reading
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Tagged Austin History, Austin Music, Counterculture, Dan and Christy Foster, Deaths, Folk Music, Folksingers, Janis Joplin, John Clay, Leo Sullivan, Lost Austin Band, Metro, Powell St. John, Rag Bloggers, Remembrance, Sixties, Songwriters, Texas Ghetto, UT-Austin, Waller Creek Boys
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Rag Mama Rag
The Rag Online The Rag can be found online in the Independent Voices collection on JSTOR. The Rag and its digital rebirth By Thorne Dreyer | Editor, The Rag Blog The Rag Blog and Rag Radio are an unprecedented digital … Continue reading
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The KKK in the news today… and back in Sixties Houston.
The Klan recruiting in the Panhandle; Klan cop in Florida; a Klansman says ‘I’m sorry.’ (Oh… and how they shot us up in the Sixties!) By Thorne Dreyer | The Rag Blog | February 9, 2009 As if things weren’t … Continue reading
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Tagged Dreyer Galleries, Houston, Houston Police, John Lewis, KKK, KPFT, Margaret Webb Dreyer, Pacifica, Right-wing Violence, SDS, Sixties, Space City, Texas, Thorne Dreyer
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