28 Days of Black

There are 3 High Schools named after prominent African Americans: Booker T. Washington HS, Wheatley HS and Yates HS.

Thelma Adele Patten Law, Houston’s first African-American female physician, was born on December 30, 1900, in Huntsville, Texas

In July 1867 twenty whites& 150 blacks attended a Republican convention in the first biracial state convention in Houston...

Michael Strahan, retired NFL Famer, was born in Houston, Texas and played college football at Texas Southern University