Photo: Houston Chronicle
Third Ward is my home.
Some would call it a “bad” neighborhood — one of Houston’s tragedies, a place of crime, poverty and sad stories.
The “Tre,” as we natives say, is a predominately Black neighborhood just south of downtown and east of the Museum District. Despite the stereotypes that often come with inner-city Black neighborhoods, Third Ward is also home to some of the city’s most noted and greatest African-American artists, activists, educators and leaders.
Black communities rarely get much credit for being great, though.