Page 6 - Everett Fly News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Final public meeting set on historic Black church site on San Pedro Creek in San Antonio FacebookTwitterEmail Work continues on the San Pedro Creek project by the Alameda Theater, Thursday, Feb. 4, 2021. Crews work on the Houston Street bridge by the foundations of the 1800’s St. James AME Church, one of the oldest Black churches in Texas, (left). The public has until March 8 to weigh in on eight redesign options for the site as part of the San Pedro Creek Culture Park.Jerry Lara /San Antonio Express-News San Antonians have one more chance to make their voices heard publicly about what they...

Descendants reclaim land that was part of lost family cemetery Work begins on historic designations for Hockley-Clay Cemetery Updated:  Tags:  SAN ANTONIO – The original Hockley-Clay Family Cemetery in Northeast San Antonio is now complete. About 6,000 square feet that wound up in two neighboring backyards decades ago have been reclaimed by the descendants of Jane Warren, a freed slave who had a ranch in the area after the Civil War. The Northern Hills subdivision borders the cemetery on one side and Northern Hills Elementary on the other. The fences in those backyards were torn down last...

Alamo Heights alums seek fellow 'Black pioneers' who integrated the San Antonio suburb's schools FacebookTwitterEmail Two people talk in the shadows in a hallway at Alamo Heights High School in 1962. Alamo Heights Independent School District, which previously had been white-only, integrated in 1955 with four children from the John Henry Smith family, who lived in Olmos Park.Courtesy / Alamo Heights ISD My friend Everett Fly, who is a National for the Humanities medalist, and I, both Alamo Heights High School graduates, are trying to identify Black pioneers of the Alamo Heights school system t...