Shadow And Act premiered the trailer for Fifth Ward, a contemporary take on Greg Carter’s 1998 film of the same name. Premiering later this year on Urban Movie Channel, the new series is said to be in vein of one of television’s greatest shows, The Wire. Starring R&B singer Mya, Carl Anthony Payne, Thomas “Nephew […]
(HOUSTON) — The news is not good for those who wanted to preserve the original Wheatley High School structure in Houston’s Fifth Ward community. The…
The wrecking ball came for Phyllis Wheatley High School over the weekend, and many in Houston’s Fifth Ward are not happy about it. Ida Powell,…
Thanks to the City of Houston, Texas Southern University, and The Fifth Ward Community Redevelopment Authority,  Houston’s DeLuxe theater is going to be renovated after being closed for over forty years. Click hereÂ
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The memories from the segregation era are still seared painfully onto Otis King’s soul. How he had to ride on the back of the bus from his home in the Fifth Ward to downtown. How all the schools were segregated. How black people couldn’t even grab a ham sandwich at local deli counters. “It’s hard […]
