Dr. Ronda Marie Chakolis interviews Devin Brown on her journey and history-making of the first Black woman to solo down the entire Mississippi River in a Kayak. Sometime this Memorial Day weekend, Northside resident Brown will begin her journey from the headwaters at Lake Itasca to Mile Marker Zero in the Mississippi River Delta, near the point where the “Misi-ziibi” (meaning great river), as the Ojibwe people called it, meets the Gulf of Mexico.
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