2022 Hurricane Season Series #6: Next week marks the 17th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina
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...
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....
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...
