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The Tribune is a locally owned weekly newspaper for the Atascocita, Humble and Kingwood, Texas area.

There's a grassroots campaign currently happening to save a historic Houston structure from demolition. 1609 Saulnier is an original structure in Fre

For the first time since the barbecue challenge in episode five, Top Chef really took advantage of its Bayou City setting. An Elimination Challenge at the hi

Houston is so much more than the concrete jungle many might imagine it to be. The city, the fourth most populous in the nation, especially has a lot to offer in the realm of arts, history and culture. When I visited last May, I barely scratched the surface in this arena and was pleasantly surprised by how many cultural institutions call Houston home. 

  By the early 20th century, Freedmen’s Town was bustling. It boasted thousands of residents, more than 400 shops, restaurants as well as jazz and blues clubs. Gospel music rang out from its churches.  It was then that it received the nickname “Harlem of the South”, the New York neighbourhood that was also growing at the time. Freedmen Town’s pretty wooden houses stretched further and further, thanks to the skills of the carpenters and other African American workers who had built mansions for white land and slave owners. Zion Escobar, executive director of the Houston Freedmen’s T...