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"It was very clear to me that while much of the peninsula was dealing with sea level rise and climate change, the Black communities were getting the worst of it," Kobell says. "You could just see ...
How climate change impacts on Black Americans and economic mobility outcomes. ... Black Americans will be exposed to extreme heat 38 days a year, compared to 27 days for White Americans.
She offers statistics showing that Black Americans and other marginalized people are disproportionately affected by climate change. Their communities have been historically redlined and are still ...
But as climate change brings increasingly unpredictable weather, Black cemeteries, in particular, are under serious threat. Severe weather and income inequality Flooding can shift gravestones and ...
I asked all 11 Democratic campaigns what they were doing to discuss climate change with Black voters and how they might be personalizing the issue for folks who, for example, ...
Black people share those conditions to the level of being disproportionately sealed under the dome of a hotter world, with dire consequences likely if the nation does not fight climate change ...
Climate change is beginning to more directly and deeply exploit these vulnerabilities. Relative to white populations, Black ...
Across the country, Black children and youth are twice as likely as the general population to die by drowning, according to ...
When considering climate change, it's also about location and quality. Nowhere clearer is this convergence than in Black communities, where housing costs have become exceptionally hard to juggle ...