It’s been a wild ride.
The discovery of the lost files hidden about Phillip Hatley have truly awakened a different side of everyone involved.
The gratitude one must feel for finally understanding the storyline rather than a vague fact with no details or clarity must be beyond measure.
While most essays written are from a third person perspective, I will be speaking in first person as I am a great granddaughter of Phillip and Willie Mae Hatley.
My family will also be showcased here in this series as I interviewed them along with podcaster Professor Laura Faith Kebede with University of Memphis’ Civil Wrongs Podcast in partnership with WKNO.
Interviewing my family always made sense as I have always had some sort of platform to speak for myself in various forms — my own podcast episodes, my Instagram and YouTube livestreams, and my writing work before starting the Flow Blog.
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