global warming
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How Climate Change and ‘Heat Islands’ are Killing Black People
The nation’s history of redlining and other forms of housing discrimination means that climate change and the Black community are on a deadly collision course.
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VP Kamala Harris Gets Real About Environmental Racism
VP Kamala Harris warned that we "don't have a minute to spare" on climate change, in a rousing speech on the crisis at the University of Michigan.
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Jackson Mississippi’s Water Crisis is a Warning! Climate Change Will Make It Worse for Black Americans
“We’re going to be doomed” if we don’t tackle climate change and address environmental racism, experts and water activists warn.
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Africa Is Experiencing Some of the Worst Climate Disasters, But the World Watches California Burn. America Needs to Lead on Climate Change
Editor’s Note: This story is being published as part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalistic collaboration to strengthen coverage of the climate story. This summer, on my social media feeds, I’ve been watching the hellish pictures of California burning, of Louisiana being torn down by hurricanes, of extreme temperature changes hitting Colorado, as these…
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Extreme Heat, Flooding and Public Health Issues: How Climate Change Is an Existential Threat to Black People
We should all be pretty familiar with the term “climate change” by now. But knowing buzzwords isn’t the same as understanding how the phenomenon affects black people on a global scale in more severe ways than other groups. The devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina. Political instability in sub-Saharan Africa. Heatwaves in Chicago. What do these…
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Kamala Harris Proposes Spending $10 Trillion (Yes, That’s Trillion With a ‘T’) to Fight Climate Change
A problem of global proportion perhaps demands a solution of similar dimensions, and on Wednesday, Democratic presidential hopeful and U.S. Sen. Kamala Harris proposed a $10 trillion plan to combat global warming, aka climate change. The California senator announced her plan Wednesday ahead of a CNN-sponsored Democratic candidates’ forum on ways to protect the environment,…
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Megan Thee Stallion Gathers Fans for a Day of Community Service
If you think we’re going to throw our asses in a circle while simultaneously doing community service, then you’re absolutely black-ass right. When Megan Thee Stallion said she was doing hoodrat shit with her friends, many thought that meant turning up and twerking on someone’s son/daughter, but, oh were you wrong! The self-proclaimed and rightfully…
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Your Bigoted Grandpa Trump Is Wacky Tweeting, Again
When President Trump packs up the family Ford Monarch and straps his sleeping coffin to the roof, he will be remembered as the president who tweeted a lot and did his best to destroy the world as we know it. Oh, there will be talk of how he saved the white man’s riches with his…