Sharon Fletcher, executive director of Houston Freedmen's Town Conservancy, preserves America's oldest black settlement with Juneteenth events and restoration.

The bricks physically embody the enslaved people who worked to build this Freedmen’s Town in Houston following the Civil War. The damage is especially concerning as Juneteenth nears, given the ...

Doris Ellis Robinson, founder and president of the Freedmen’s Town Preservation Coalition, reported that contractors damaged historic bricks in Houston’s Fourth Ward. “You cannot get this ...

The Houston Freedmen’s Town Conservancy is hosting its annual Juneteenth Fest with an urgent theme this year. This Juneteenth, one of the first communities created by newly freed Black Texans ...

As we celebrate Juneteenth, Freedmen's Town in Houston's 4th Ward is telling the story of pride and perseverance that comes with celebrating 160 years of freedom. KPRC 2's Zorrie Jones spoke with ...

The Freedmen's Bureau, through "locating agents," assisted interested freedmen in finding plots, and provided them with 1–month subsistence, free transportation to their prospective tracts of land, ...

The bricks in Freedmen's Town were laid in part by formerly enslaved African Americans during the latter part of the 19th century. Some of them also were unearthed in 2016.