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As we learn to live with the Pandemic, although this series started a few years ago, tips from Hurricane Katrina survivors’ advice on persevering is still relevant today. My book on Mississippi women Katrina survivors can help you get through the aftermath of the...

Severe weather and tornadoes moved across the South from Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky to Virginia. Selma Alabama was hit hard by the treacherous weather system. A state of emergency was declared after an EF-3 Tornado ripped through Selma with over 134 mile...

The past year gave me a plethora of opportunities to share Mississippi Black Women Hurricane Katrina survivors' experiences of resilience and recovery. I was especially excited to return to my home state to participate in the Mississippi Book Festival on my Summer...

Over 200 million people from Seattle to Maine are under a weather storm alert. Meteorologists say a fast system known as a Bomb Cyclone is moving across the country. The storm is expected to cause bitterly cold temperatures, dangerous winds, snow, rain, and flooding...

The narratives in my book on Hurricane Katrina women survivors provide strategies on how to get through stressful times, like the Christmas season. “Just do what you can do” one woman said. Another woman commented, ‘decide to just get one or two things done each day...

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:...

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...

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....

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 Hurricane...