(part of a series from the “Shipwrecked Project”) There are many definitions of a hard childhood. By any definition Mario…
Today a powerful white man in Houston suggested to me that if Black people want to improve their circumstances it’s all…
2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 One of our early Houston founding families supported the creation of settlement houses and community…
Dear Mayor Sylvester Turner and Judge Lina Hidalgo: Let me be frank. If you step up and lead — call upon…
I am thinking of some of my most treasured relationships. People in Louisiana. Friends and family. Many Louisiana friends are…
I slept badly and woke up with a sense of dread. A few moments during which I knew something was…
AND WHAT HAS SHE BEEN DOING SINCE BAKERRIPLEY? …answering all the questions I am most often asked about what I’m…
Well, I woke up to a random story about how BakerRipley is a mean old for profit making a huge…
So many of my friends homes are flooded. Again. I feel sick with dread. Weeks of misery. Months of mold.…
“No one can whistle a symphony. It takes a whole orchestra to play it.” — H.E. Luccock Long-term recovery begins…