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Recently, the Daniel A.P. Murray African American Cultural Association housed at the Library of Congress invited me to give a talk on Hurricane Katrina Women survivors. The Zoom session drew academic researchers, librarians, and those interested in hurricanes and the...

Before the next storm arrives, here are six (6) tips to know about water and flooding during hurricanes. 1) Water is the most dangerous aspect of a hurricane because forecasters can only estimate the amount of rain that will fall. 2)Rain can occur quickly during...

The CLEO Book Club invited me to give a talk on Mississippi Hurricane Katrina women survivors.  It was a pleasure to meet this group of Black women readers in Centreville which is right outside Washington DC.  I was delighted to see these women walk into the room with...

Tropical Depression #Nine is churning in the Caribbean and it has the potential to strengthen as it tracks toward the Gulf of Mexico. According to the National Hurricane Center rapid intensification is possible as the system passes over the very warm Atlantic waters....

When I was a little girl, my parents would mention my mother’s brother’s wife who had moved to Flint Michigan who they called “Feet". It would be decades before I would get to know Aunt Mary (her real name) personally: This week she went home to be with God. It was...

This week, I gave an interview on the disastrous Jackson Water Crisis. Radio Host, Dr. E. Faye Williams invited me to join her show, 'Wake Up and Stay Woke, to discuss the dreadful dilemma Jackson residents endured. The city's residents, who are 80% Black, had no...

Thank you Serena Williams. You are "The Greatest of ALL TIME":  We LOVE YOU! What a week of Tennis:  Thanks for playing the best tennis for the last 25 years champion! We will ALWAYS Remember You Are the ALL TIME Winner!!!!! That's all for this week's BLOG....

On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina decimated the Gulf Coast region from Texas-Louisiana-Mississippi-Alabama-Georgia  to Florida. The image of Hurricane Katrina cemented in our minds what the perfect category 3 storm looks like, how it leaves catastrophic...