We support grassroots leaders working to preserve historic communities of color by transforming them into inclusive places & cultural destinations.
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Creighton Court had 502 apartments before demolition began.
The redeveloped neighborhood will have 731 units -- a few for sale.
According to this agreement for $21M the redeveloped neighborhood will not allow more than 183 households in with the average Creighton Court income.
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Here we go again! – at Houston, TX
Black farmers fight to get a fair deal as state takes land for Tennessee Ford plant roadway near the new BlueOval City campus, but the state is offering them a fraction of what their land is worth bit.ly/420FO4w
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It's National Preservation Month! Tell me an endangered Black place without telling me it's an endangered Black place. 👀
Old Voting House west of Cold Springs, TX. #savethisplace
ALT Old Voting House in Cold Springs, Texas.
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Pulitzer Prize Winner Alice Walker returns for 30th Zora Neale Hurston Festival - orlandoadvocate.com/2018/12/…
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We're bringing economic development to the City of Prairie View. Hoteks, stores, food, fun. Thanks to Mayor David Allen, 86 acres of sports fields will change the economic landscape for our city. #cricketcomplex
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Fact! We've been so busy saving everybody else's history without preserving ours.Look at that architecture.Nah, it doesn't fit traditional landmark guidelines. Architecture is great, but what happened here is greater.Many people got married on this porch in Independence Heights.
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Ms. Ella turned100 this year. Her father helped build a black town. When a road threatened to divide the town, her daughter stopped it. Hear her story at Preserving Communities of Color Conference.
bit.ly/2OyITaO – at Houston, TX
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What she said! "It's the history of the each town that's great, but what they did was the importance. Mound Bayou established a healthcare system for blacks in the deep south". Mayor Eulah Peterson #historymatters #hbtsa2018 – at Houston, TX
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Before & after the Civil War there were so many "Wakanda" like places set up by blk folks called historic black towns and settlements. #hbtsa #Wakanda #BlackPanther
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Have you heard the news about Hobson City. Plans are being made to make sure it remains a city.#hbtsa2018 #hobsoncityproud bit.ly/2pfq4tz
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Deep in the Mississippi Delta, Mound Bayou founded in 1887 by freed slaves was a real life "Wakanda". #knowyourhistory #moundbayoulives #hbtsa2018 – at Mound Bayou, MS
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Wakanda is fictional but in 1905, blacks migrated just beyond the original City of Houston boundary & established their own Wakanda known as Independence Heights, the 1st black municipality in Texas! #ihstrong #hbtsa2018 – at Houston, TX
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Michael Ford: “Our profession is more than brick and mortar. We create incubators of culture.” #HipHopArchitecture bit.ly/2tjerSZ
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Mayor's 6th Annual Acres Homes Juneteenth Parade this Saturday at 10AM #Houston #Houstonevents #Houstonlife #HouNews #HTX #HTOWN #HoustonTX
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New Orleans Begins Removal of Controversial Confederate Monuments: bit.ly/2oFkorx
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Excited to screen our award-winning doc about activism, housing discrimination & #gentrification @UAAnews #UAA2017! bit.ly/2pxSi1W
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Celebrating Selma Burke and starting a drive to conserve this amazing artwork @selmaonthehill.
