HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- A historic African American cemetery in north Houston was left in disrepair more than a year after Hurricane Beryl. Downed trees are still there, and some are on top of tombstones.

The cemetery was established in 1930. Debra Blacklock-Sloan, member of the Harris County African American Cultural Heritage Commission, said it is filled with educators, businessmen, and politicians.

"I think about what the people who are buried here, (and) what they did for this city. We're standing on their shoulders," Blacklock-Sloan said.

The debris is so severe that it even makes it hard to read the names of those laid to rest there.

"Why does a cemetery look this way? That's a great question," Blacklock-Sloan said.

She said about twice a year a local fraternity comes out to m

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