Black Women Fight for Life in Houston's Most Toxic — and Gentrifying — Neighborhood

Black Women Fight for Life in Houston's Most Toxic — and Gentrifying — Neighborhood

When Carolyn Rivera moved to Settegast, a majority-Black neighborhood in northeast Houston, 45 years ago, horses roamed the streets and nearly every homestead had a backyard farm where chickens and speckled feather guinea hens darted between rows of corn and greens.  Rivera, who turns 83 next month, remembers those early days with a kind of wistful reverence. “It was absolutely a beautiful community,” she said. “Families looked out for one anoth…