Tag Archives: Congress
Build Back Better BIPOC Coastal Cultural Heritage Communities including the Gullah/Geechee Nation
I never thought that my house on St. Helena Island in South Carolina would host the United States Congress or the United Nations. However, due to the on-going global pandemic, I have been able sit in prestigious political places via my computer screen without traveling and contributing further carbon emissions. As I tune in, I am concerned about the omissions- the omissions of the cost of climate change impacts on cultural heritage communities like the Gullah/Geechee Nation on the southeastern coast.
Queen Quet of the Gullah/Geechee Nation Returns to the House Committee on Natural Resources to Celebrate Black History
Queen Quet, Chieftess of the Gullah/Geechee Nation (www.QueenQuet.com) will join Chairman Raúl M. Grijalva of the United States House Committee on Natural Resources and special guests Dr. Jeanette Davis and Tashiana Osborne in celebrating Black Excellence in Social Policy on Friday, February 26, 2021 at 2 pm EST. They will engage in this special forum in honor and celebration of Black History Month. Tune in at via Facebook to http://bit.ly/2ZPVLfI or on YouTube.
Queen Quet: Queen of Islands and Water Champion
Those tides are now called “king tides” throughout the Gullah/Geechee Nation and that king has dethrowned cotton. Aaah, but this king now has an elected Queen that is facing him and the other members of his climate changing and environmentally impacting family head on-Queen Quet!
Queen Quet of the Gullah/Geechee Nation Testifies Before the United States Congress
Queen Quet, Chieftess of the Gullah/Geechee Nation is headed to Washington, D.C. this week to provide expert testimony before the United States Congress on how climate change is impacting her people and their coastal and Sea Island communities.