Outside the Kelly Court in Fifth Ward Saturday afternoon, a public housing community that will soon lose a number of buildings to the I-45 expansion, adults passed out school supplies, children clambered about a bouncy house and workers in white aprons set up a hibachi grill inside a white tent. Some gathered wore shirts printed by a former resident especially for the occasion: “Kelly Court Reunion 2025.”
Some had driven 45 minutes, an hour, from Katy, Conroe and other suburbs.
“I know you,” said Demetrius Johnson, 57, in a Rap-a-Lot shirt (a record label founded in the neighborhood). “Isn’t your sister named Dorothy?” (No, he was thinking of his cousin.)…