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KPRC 2 Houston Newsmakers
Commissioner McCoy is featured on KPRC 2’s Houston Newsmakers discussing some crucial topics including the future of broadband in our community, homelessness in Fort Bend County, and the significance of building an African American Memorial. He also provided an exclusive look into his remarkable achievements and milestones during his first 7 months in office! Click here to view the interview with host Khambrel Marshall.
by: Sharron Melton
FORT BEND COUNTY (KIAH) — This Juneteenth has been filled will activities, events and inspiring programs taking place around the Houston area. One in particularly involved a historic location, a cemetery, that volunteers made their mission to bring back its honor.
For 3 hours Saturday, volunteers spent the morning cleaning tombstones and removing brush and overgrowth Bates Allen Park. This location is where the historic Newman Chapel Cemetery and historic Oak Hill Cemetery, at 630 Charlie Roberts Ln. are located. These historic gravesites of former slaves have almost been forgotten. And now volunteers are preparing the area for new African American Memorial.
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by Annie Mulligan / Independent Photographer
Volunteers spent Saturday morning cleaning up the neglected grave sites of at least 20 former enslaved people that were discovered in Fort Bend County last year. Independent photographer Annie Mulligan documented the group’s efforts over Juneteenth weekend.
Staff
KENDLETON, Texas — On this Juneteenth weekend, volunteers in Fort Bend County are cleaning up historic Black gravesites.
The sites, located in Bates Allen Park, hold the remains of former slaves who founded the City of Kendleton. The first Black state representative and the first African-American sheriff in the United States are among those buried there.
“It's important that on this day, Juneteenth, that we're paying homage to these heroes who came before us to really start this community here in Fort Bend County that we still enjoy today,” Ft. Bend County Precinct 4 Constable Dexter L. McCoy said.
“I wanted the kids to know that you can do acts of kindness without wanting to receive anything and it's part of a bigger picture how you're helping the world,” volunteer Lisa Walling added.
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Claire Goodman
Dozens of volunteers came together in the freedmen’s town of Kendleton on Saturday to clean gravestones at a historically Black cemetery in Bates Allen Park that serves at the final resting place for many former slaves who learned of their liberation 158 years ago.
The Juneteenth clean up is part of an ongoing effort to turn the park, which had fallen into disrepair, into the first African-American memorial in the Houston area. The endeavor began in February 2022 when Congressman Pete Olson went to the cemetery pay his respects to Benjamin Franklin Williams, the first Black member of the House of Representatives, and found his headstone face-down and covered in mud.
