As assistant manager of the Texas and local history department at the Houston Public Library, Will Howard has the ward system at his fingertips. Yellowed historical maps, sheathed in plastic and ...

Third Ward, nicknamed "The Tre," is the epicenter of Houston's rich Black history and culture. It's home to Texas Southern University ... to curated guides and maps. Coleman’s camping 2-Burner ...

While HISD, City Hall and Houston Super Neighborhoods currently keep Third Ward intact, some worry HCC’s current and proposed maps could set ... the University of Texas at Austin and is a ...

The Houston Community College Board of Trustees approved a new redistricting map on Wednesday, but failed to re-unify a portion of District 4 that includes the Third Ward community. The 2020 ...

In the beginning there was the Republic of Texas. The wild new country ... downtown in what would become First Ward. Decades passed before the city of Houston’s surveyors began drawing lines ...

Michael Stravato for The Texas Tribune When he picked her up ... The scene at Rogers’ apartment complex was playing out all over Houston's Fifth Ward, which has long been a predominantly black ...

HOUSTON – The Third and Fifth wards of Houston have been designated ... funding through the Cultural District Project run by the Texas Commission on the Arts. “These neighborhoods have created ...