Zenobia Wiley News Today

HOUSTON – Students enrolled in Lamar Consolidated ISD expressed disappointment Wednesday over plans to host senior prom at a well-known former plantation. “You’re asking us to dance on our ancestors’ graves and that could very well make people angry,” said Zenobia Wiley, a senior at George Ranch High School in Richmond.  The school is less than two miles from The George Ranch Historical Park, a 20,000-acre facility “divided into four time periods (the 1830s, 1860s, 1890s and 1930s)...

Lamar Consolidated ISD student Zenobia Wiley set up a Change.org petition against the school district's plan to hold proms at George Ranch Historical Park, a former plantation.