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Barbara Jordan playing a guitar

Don’t mind me – I’m just blessing your screen with a photo of legendary Congresswoman (educator, lawyer, trailblazer), Barbara Jordan,…

I can’t tell if they’re doing the Jitterbug, or the Lindy Hop, but whatever it is they look good doing…

Snapshots

When you hear someone say how terrible Houston drivers have gotten lately, show them this photo. Houstonians ain’t new to…

Houston loves beer. As of 2019, our beloved Bayou City is home to 64 craft breweries with more and more…

The subject of this week’s 70 Years a Freedmen series will be Mary Armstrong, a formerly enslaved woman interviewed by…

Built in 1909, this brick warehouse was the home of Eller Wagon Works. Frank Eller and his son, Homer, founded…

On November 15, 1947, Sigman Byrd blessed his readers with the charming story of Tom, the hound dog mascot of…

For the sake of changing things up a bit and adding more variety to the blog, I have created a…

This post features D. L. Fontaine Service Station, located at the corner of Houston Avenue and Crockett Street in Houston’s…

Frenchtown Origins On November 7, 1947, Sigman Byrd took his readers on a stroll to Frenchtown, a Creole-French neighborhood to…

This young man is Clerch Edgar Jefferson and he was the owner of the fine establishment in the photo, which…

The only time Houston’s historic neighborhood of Sunnyside comes up in conversation nowadays is if the topic of discussion is…