{"id":356059,"date":"2026-06-30T18:33:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T18:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/356059\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T18:33:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T18:33:08","slug":"real-housewives-of-potomac-visit-houston-for-park-ribbon-cutting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/356059\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Real Housewives of Potomac’ visit Houston for park ribbon-cutting"},"content":{"rendered":"

Videographers had cameras at every angle for the ribbon-cutting in northeast Houston Tuesday morning. The park was beautiful, but the lenses were trained in the opposite direction, to where the \u201creal housewives\u201d were sitting.<\/p>\n

The guest of honor at the unveiling of Curtis\u00a0M. Graves Park was none other than his daughter, Gizelle Bryant, a\u00a0star on the Bravo TV show \u201cReal Housewives of Potomac.\u201d<\/p>\n

Curtis Graves,\u00a0who died in 2023,<\/a> was a civil rights leader and one of the first Black Texans elected to the state House of Representatives post-Reconstruction. Graves served three terms in the Texas House from 1967 to 1973. After an unsuccessful bid for Texas Senate, Graves worked for NASA as director of educational programs and later as director of public affairs.<\/p>\n

\u201cI can\u2019t imagine what it was in the \u201960s to be a Black man, to be a Black man that is fighting for rights, for equal rights,\u201d\u00a0Bryant said of her father.<\/a> \u201cI can\u2019t imagine what it was for a Black man to be fighting for equal rights in the South.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cCannot imagine. I one thousand percent appreciate his courage. I appreciate his conviction. I appreciate his sacrifice. Every day of my life, I am honored, I am humbled to be Curtis Graves\u2019 daughter.\u201d<\/p>\n

The 75-acre and $3.2 million park, which has swings, fishing and picnic areas, will get two murals and a 6-foot-tall granite statue of Graves by the end of October.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was just such an inspiration,\u201d Ellis said. \u201cI\u2019ve researched his record, I\u2019ve read his book. He represented and championed this community at a time when our voices and perspectives had long been ignored.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Videographers had cameras at every angle for the ribbon-cutting in northeast Houston Tuesday morning. The park was beautiful,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":356060,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57],"class_list":["post-356059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=356059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356059\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/356060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}