You are INVITED to join me on my Mississippi Book Tour
As Hurricane Katrina’s anniversary approaches, I am touring through Mississippi to bring awareness to Black women’s resilience and recovery since the disaster on August 29, 2005. Be sure you check my Blog to find out where you can come to hear about the women’s...
Diversion from Natural Disasters: Goodbye to a dear childhood friend: Billy Willis
This week’s Blog post is dedicated to my dear childhood friend, Billy Willis. God called Billy home this month and it was hard to hear this news. I met Billy and the Willis family when my family moved into our new home and neighborhood in the 1970s. The Willis’s...
My Talk with the National Congress of Black Women’s Book Club
National Congress of Black Women, Inc. (NCBW) invited me to give a talk to their 'Book Club' members on the Overlooked Voices of Hurricane Katrina: Mississippi Black Women Survivors Resilience and Recovery. The organization was founded in by the late Dr. Mary McCloud...
2022 Hurricane Season Series#5: The ‘PEAK’ of is approaching
The most active month of the ‘Hurricane Season’ is August. Meteorologists expect an active stretch of storms and hurricanes over the next 30 days. So far, we have had three names storms which is just above normal this early in the season. The National Oceanic...
#5 Persevere Thru the Pandemic Series: Black Women’s Landmarks Give Hope
The Pandemic has been tough but here are a few reasons to keep going. This month I visited ‘The Harriet Tubman Byway’ and ‘The Colored Girls Museum’ (CGM). Both places were dedicated to the lives of Black women who persevered thru the unbelievable life experience of...
2022 Hurricane Season Series #3: #HurricaneStrong provides a safe evacuation route
This week’s post provides a useful website to help you find your evacuation route so that stay during hurricane threat. #HurricaneStrong website is a national resilience initiative whose goal is to save lives by partnering with FEMA, NOAA and FLASH (the Federal...
2022 Hurricane Season Series #4: Know your ‘Flood’ risk before disasters
This week’s blog post features ‘Flood Factor' which helps users determine their flood risk. The 2022 Hurricane Season is expected to be overactive and could produce flooding. So, regardless of where you live in the U.S. just enter your address into 'Flood Factor' and...
DC Book Club invited me to discuss The Overlooked Voices of Hurricane Katrina
Recently, a DC based book club invited me to a Zoom session to discuss my book, The Overlooked Voices of Hurricane Katrina Mississippi Black Women Survivors Resilience and Recovery. The event attracted avid readers, authors, and entrepreneurs. I shared aspects of the...
2022 Hurricane Season #2: Tropical Storm Bonnie is expected to join an elite group of crossovers storms.
Crossover cyclones are rare, but the first of the 2022 Hurricane Season will occur this week. The National Hurricane Center (NHC) says Tropical Storm Bonnie is expected to join an exclusive group of systems that make their way from the Atlantic into the Pacific Ocean....