Tommie Lee Wyatt

Co-founder and longtime publisher of The Villager newspaper

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Austin renames Plantation Road to honor Black newspaper publisher

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Deceased January 2026 at age 88; street renamed in his honor

A street in South Austin named Plantation Road is now Tommie Lee Wyatt Lane. The new signs went up October 14, honoring the co-founder and longtime publisher of The Villager, a newspaper that covered Black life in Austin for more than five decades.

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