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The list contains the names of cities, districts, and neighborhoods in the U.S. that are predominantly African American or that are strongly associated with African-American culture— either currently or historically. Included are areas that contain high concentrations of blacks or African Americans.
The city of Houston, Texas, contains many neighborhoods, ranging from planned communities to historic wards. There is no uniform standard for what constitutes an individual neighborhood within the city; however, the city of Houston does recognize a list of 88 super neighborhoods which encompass broadly recognized regions. According to the city ...
Houston Chronicle columnist Joy Sewing wrote in 2020 that "The 'Tre, as we natives say, is a predominately Black neighborhood just south of downtown and east of the Museum District. Despite the stereotypes that often come with inner-city Black neighborhoods, Third Ward is also home to some of the city's most noted and greatest African-American ...
The Texas Freeman was founded in 1893 and later merged to become The Houston Informer and Texas Freeman. [56] KCOH 1430 AM was a black-owned radio stationed started in 1953. [70] It was a focal point for the Houston black community located at the iconic "looking-glass" studios on 5011 Almeda in Midtown Houston.
Lawrence Wright of Texas Monthly, in 1982, described Macgregor Way, a major road through Riverside Terrace, as "the center of the Black moneyed elite, one of the wealthiest minority neighborhoods in the country" and that it has "central boulevards and bravura mansions" which means the road "recalls—in quite deliberate fashion—the shoulder ...
The Subsistence Homesteads Division of the Interior Department, a program of the New Deal, developed Houston Gardens for the purpose of giving poor and landless people the opportunity to become homeowners. Houston Gardens was the only such community developed in Greater Houston. [1] The City of Houston annexed it in the 1940s. [2]
The report shows the city's historically Black neighborhoods have lost large numbers of its Black population. ... Austin had the highest median home price of a Texas metro area in 2023, $60,000 ...
This category is for neighborhoods of Houston, Texas. Officially Recognized Houston Super Neighborhoods; Subcategories. This category has the following 12 ...