Experts say camps offer the opportunity to try skills and social situations while developing a stronger sense of self in the safety of communities that share values.

Sadé Perkins, a former Houston mayoral appointee, has sparked widespread outrage as in her viral TikTok video, she claimed that Camp Mystic, a Texas girls' camp devastated by flash floods, was a 'white-only girls' Christian camp'.

Controversy erupted after a fundraiser for Sade Perkins, a former Houston official who made racial comments about the 27 girls who died in Camp Mystic floods.  Read More

The camp announced Monday that 27 of its campers and counselors died in Friday's floods in the Texas Hill Country. The former member of Houston's food insecurity board referred to the camp as a "whites only enclave" in a widely circulated TikTok video over the weekend.

Former Houston appointee Sade Perkins recently came under fire after claiming that Camp Mystic was "White-only" as the Texas camp deals with catastrophic flooding that killed dozens.

She was appointed to the City’s Food Insecurity Board by former Mayor Sylvester Turner in 2023, and her term expired in January 2025. Mayor John Whitmire has no plans to reappoint her, and the City is taking immediate steps to remove her permanently from the board.

As the death toll rose to nearly 100, some elected officials and experts say the flash flooding that engulfed the Guadalupe River highlight the need for Americans to invest more, not less, in

Sade Perkins, a Houston mayoral appointee, is under fire after making inflammatory remarks about a Texas summer camp devastated by flooding.

Liam Gallagher sparked controversy just days before he reunited with his brother Noel for the start of their Oasis tour.