Events

Looking for a family friendly event ? Come to the Richmond Diversity Center the Richmond Black book festival. Organizers are expecting up to 3,000 people. There will be books for all audiences, fiction or non-fiction. I am a featured speaker and will give a talk on my...

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: Mississippi Black...

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...

My 2022 Mississippi Book Tour to promote The Overlooked Voices of Hurricane Katrina: Mississippi Black Women Survivors Resilience and Recovery was a huge success. First, I attended the Mississippi Book Festival in Jackson. Of 350 authors I was interviewed by WJTV TV. ...

Recently, I was invited to give the Keynote address at the Richmond African American Book Fair. The event was attended by over 500 people. My talk was well-received and book sales were very good.  Check out more here. Keynote Speaker at the Richmond African American...

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