The outdated and inefficient water infrastructure in a historically Black town in California has forced residents to create their own water out of thin air.
a thick green canopy armed to the teeth, immersed in their defiant extremist belief. hunting, stalking, deadly in this particular heart of darkness. it was the summer of 2011, a jungle clad island in the southern tip of the philippines where they had prepared the place and the news of the terrible deed committed here flashed halfway around the world and came crashing down out of nowhere on a modest working class family in lynchburg, virginia. i got a phone call from my mother. the first thing she said was they were kidnapped in the philippines. kidnapped? sherry hunter tried to wrap her head around the inconceivable. jerfa was her aunt. kevin, her 14-year-old son. they were due home from a philippine vacation. instead they were in the clutches of something horrific. i felt like i was in a dream. it wasn t real.