Dartmouth College: Talk on Mississippi Hurricane Katrina women survivors
This month, I gave a talk at The Roundtable for Black Feminist and Womanist Theory. The three-day event attracted scholars whose work is grounded in one or both constructs. My talk highlighted one aspect of my book, the Overlooked Voices of Hurricane Katrina:...
First snowstorm before Thanksgiving.
A November storm is dumping large amounts of snow in New York. In just one-hour, four-to-five inches of snow fell in Buffalo and more bad weather is expected as the system moves northeast. According to Accu Weather, Lake-effect snow over Lake Erie and Lake Ontario is...
2022 Hurricane Season Series #10: Hurricane Nicole has been downgraded to a Tropical Depression as she moves Northeast
This week, Nicole, a rare late-season Category 1 hurricane hit Florida. The last November storm was over 30 years ago. Now, Tropical Depression Nicole is wreaking havoc along the Northeastern Seaboard. The storm made landfall and left three people dead in Orlando....
#6 Persevere Thru the Pandemic Series: Two things to help.
The Pandemic has tested us in ways we didn’t know we could manage, but as tragic as Hurricane Katrina was, Black women survivors found ways to keep going and they have lessons to help us persevere too. Two things these women survivors did to press on after...
