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Sugar Land City Council members, Sugar Land Legacy Foundation members, veterans and donors unveil the second phase of the city's Eagle Plaza. (Hunter Marrow/Community Impact Newspaper)
Second phase of Sugar Land Memorial Park Eagle Plaza project officially unveiled
Fort Bend ISD will open an educational exhibit on the Sugar Land 95 this spring at the James Reese Career and Technical Center. (Hunter Marrow/Community Impact Newspaper)
FBISD to open Sugar Land 95 exhibit this spring, hold community sessions on future revitalized cemetery
This map shows the proposed attendance boundary for Sonal Bhuchar Elementary School in red. Additionally, the area outlined in purple will be rezoned from Commonwealth Elementary School to Sullivan Elementary School. (Courtesy Fort Bend ISD)
CI TEXAS ROUNDUP: Fort Bend ISD proposes attendance boundaries for new elementary school; Texas’ housing market establishing 'new normal' and more top news
Daniel Sample, manager of FBCL’s Genealogy and Local History Department, demonstrates the ScanPro 3000 microfilm scanner in the Genealogy and Local History Department at George Memorial Library in Richmond. (Courtesy Fort Bend County Libraries)
George Memorial Library in Richmond adds microfilm scanner to genealogy department
According to the Katy Heritage Society, at 177 feet tall, the J.V. Cardiff & Sons rice dryer was the tallest in the country when it opened in 1966. (Courtesy Cardiff Rice Dryer)
Historic Katy rice dryer to be restored; Conroe shelter accused of abuse and more top Houston-area news
(From right) JD Doyle, Sara Fernandez and Kirk Baxter are the founders of The Banner Project. (Courtesy Kirk Baxter)
Traveling installation tells the story of Houston’s LGBTQ history
The text of General Order No. 3, which Gordon Granger issued from Galveston in June 1865 to explicitly liberate enslaved Black Texans, runs across the bottom of the mural. (Colleen Ferguson/Community Impact Newspaper)
‘I am filled’: Houston-Galveston area celebrates first Juneteenth as federal holiday
The Missouri City Juneteenth Celebration Foundation holds a number of events each year commemorating the holiday, including a parade and concert in the park. (Courtesy Missouri City Juneteenth Celebration Foundation)
Missouri City's annual Juneteenth celebration to culminate with parade and concert, June 19
This will be the 43rd annual event known as the nation’s original MLK Day parade sanctioned by Martin Luther King Sr. in 1978. (Courtesy Black Heritage Society)
Houston’s Martin Luther King Jr. Day parade goes virtual for 2021 event
The Sugar Land 95 were reburied where they were found on the James Reese Career and Technical Center grounds. (Claire Shoop/Community Impact Newspaper)
Latest report on Sugar Land 95 lends insight into those who died under convict leasing system
Volunteers Hunter Pyle and Eddie Pierce, along with missionaries from the Church of Jesus Chirst of Latter-Day Saints, kept the wood chipper going all day to fill the dumpster. (Courtesy John Meredith)
Volunteers make progress restoring historic Black cemetery in Conroe
Staff members will lead virtual tours in real time at The Alamo. (Courtesy The Alamo)
Remember the Alamo through virtual tours
The Smithsonian Institution operates a number of museums in Washington, D.C. The most recent one built is the National Museum of African American History and Culture, pictured here. (Courtesy Smithsonian Institution)
Sen. John Cornyn's Smithsonian museum for American Latinos bill passes House vote
Locals support Black Lives Matter on June 2. (Nola Z. Valente/Community Impact Newspaper)
Q&A: Houston area expert speaks on institutionalized racism, racial trauma, protests
Union General Gordon Granger came to Galveston in 1865 to announce the liberation of enslaved people in Texas; a nine-foot-tall statue of Granger is visible when driving along Broadway Avenue J, one of Galveston’s busiest streets. (Graphic by Justin Howell/Community Impact Newspaper)
National Juneteenth holiday has Houston-Galveston roots
In mid-December, the Sugar Land 95 grave sites were marked with stakes after reburial occurred. (Beth Marshall/Community Impact Newspaper)
Sugar Land 95 memorial ceremony postponed due to coronavirus; historic discovery to live on in statewide curriculum
The Sugar Land 95 are believed to have been convict laborers who died working in sugar cane fields in the late 1800s and early 1900s.
Sugar Land 95 remains are one step closer to reburial