Voices of Enlightenment: Journalist Maudlyne Ihejirika, President, NABJ Chicago

Award winning reporter, an editor at the Sun Times, author and newly elected President of the National Association of Black Journalists, - Chicago, Maudlyne Ihejirika joins us today, fresh from interviewing evacuees from Puerto Rico, to give us her perspective on America's relief efforts for those caught in another natural disaster.  As author of the heartwarming life story of her mother Angelina Ihejirika, "Escape From Nigeria: A Memoir of Faith, Love and War," Maudlyne Ihejirika has a special insight on those who have had to struggle to survive in the face of disaster.  Her book tells of her mother's childhood in Nigeria, her escape from the famine and deprivation of the Nigerian-Biafran war and her harrowing global effort to be reunited with her husband - all against the backdrop of a catastrophic conflict.  Now, reporting on the survivors of this latest weather disaster that has left devastation and distruction throughout Puerto Rico, Maudlyne gives us an inside perspective on how it feels to lose it all and have to depend on the benevolence of strangers. How does it feel to be at the mercy of the Earth's elements and to hope that the government responds to your cries for help? Is the media giving us the true story about the effectiveness of the government's disaster relief efforts?