The Mississippi River “Great Flood of 1927” inundated large areas in Mississippi, Arkansas, and Louisiana. However, it was in Mississippi where the embankments overflowed, drowning hundreds, perhaps a thousand people, and became one of the largest natural disasters in US history regarding loss of life. Continue reading Revisit: THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER GREAT FLOOD OF 1927

The Charleston Church Massacre took place at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church in Charleston, South Carolina on June 17, 2015.  Dylann Roof, a white supremacist, killed nine people including the senior pastor and South Carolina State Senator Clementa C. Pinkney during a prayer service at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church.  The shooting increased the awareness of racial violence and terrorism in the United States particularly against African Americans and led the South Carolina Assembly to remove the Confederate flag from the state capitol grounds. Continue reading Revisit: THE CHARLESTON CHURCH MASSACRE (2015)