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by Brewing America | May 11, 2021 | All, Black history, Books, Juneteenth, Politics & Policy, Race | 0 |
In the historic Black neighborhood where I grew up in Dallas, a parade would roll off the lot of New Mount Zion Baptist Church on June 19, or the Saturday closest to it, and wend its way through a community where many of the...
Read Moreby Brewing America | Mar 18, 2021 | All, Architecture, Black history, houston, Style & Design | 0 |
From the sixties to the nineties, practically everyone who was anyone in the state’s Democratic politics or civil rights movement could be found, at some point, at the Houston home of architect John S. Chase. It was an...
Read Moreby Brewing America | Oct 22, 2020 | All, Black history, Texas history, The Culture | 0 |
No one grows up in Texas without internalizing the myth of our state’s exceptionalism in some way. I say “myth,” but that doesn’t mean that Texas is not, in fact, exceptional. I grew up here, and I’ll never not believe with my...
Read Moreby Brewing America | Feb 29, 2020 | All, aviation, Bessie Coleman, Black history, Black history month, History, Stunt flying, Texas history, Waxahachie | 0 |
When I was in the third grade at Kate Bell Elementary School, in Southwest Houston, my classmates and I dressed up as historical figures in honor of Black History Month. Donning a set of oversized goggles from our local Party...
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