1 day ago · U.S. Congressman and longtime Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner died at 70, on the morning of March 5, 2025. Born in 1954, months after the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in Brown v.

1 day ago · Turner was born in the northwest Houston neighborhood of Acres Homes in 1954 to Ruby Mae Turner and Eddie Turner. His father died when he was 13. Ruby Mae, ... Houston mayor Sylvester Turner and Houston Educational Support Personnel president Wretha Thomas attend a rally against a TEA take over of Houston ISD, Friday, March 3, 2023, in Houston. ...

1 day ago · The Black son of a painter and maid grew riding the bus from Acres Homes to downtown ... Former Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner laughs as he sits next to Erica Lee Carter, daughter of the late U.S ...

U.S. Rep. Sylvester Turner, who rose from a child in Acres Homes to serve as Houston’s mayor for eight years and was elected to Congress last year, has died. He was 70. His death was confirmed ...

1 day ago · Sylvester Turner grew up in Acres Homes and still lived in the area where a park was previously named in his honor. ... Tears at Houston City Council where Sylvester Turner served two terms as ...

1 day ago · Turner was born and raised in Houston’s Acres Homes, a historic Black neighborhood. He earned degrees from the University of Houston and Harvard Law School before working as a trial lawyer and later founding his own law firm. He was elected to the Texas House in 1988 and served for nearly three decades before being elected Houston mayor in 2015.

1 day ago · Then-Houston mayor Sylvester Turner describes his bout with cancer in an interview at City Hall in Houston on Nov. 15, 2022. ... Turner was born in 1954 in Acres Homes, a work-class and ...

1 day ago · Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner is shown in his office at City Hall Tuesday, Dec. 26, 2023, in Houston. ... Turner grew up in the Acres Homes community. He was born Sep. 27, 1954, the sixth oldest ...

1 day ago · A native Houstonian, Turner was born in 1954 and grew up in the suburbs of Acres Homes. In the final stretch of his mayoral tenure in 2022, Turner announced he had been quietly battling bone cancer.

T he Honorable Sylvester Turner’s story began in the Acres Homes community in northwest Houston where he was born and raised as one of nine children in a modest two-bedroom home.