Independence Heights, now in northwest Houston, was originally its own town — and in fact, was Texas’ first municipality registered by African Americans. Tanya Debose, a fourth-generation descendant of an Independence Heights landowner, tells us the best way to experience the history that gentrification threatens to erase.

The community site for Independence Heights
Esther's Cajun Soul Food
Gatlin's BBQ
Gatlin's Fins & Feathers

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