Black Communities Need Climate Change Help, Groups Tell Congress

Groups are turning up the pressure on Congress to do more for black communities being battered by strong storms, rising tides, and intense heat.

Climate change is striking first at low-income black communities around the country, black leaders said at a heated recent roundtable in Washington, where the message for lawmakers was clear: They need to do more.

“People of color have always been on the front line of this movement. We’re hit first and hit worst,” said Alaina Beverly, an Obama White House urban affairs official who’s now vice president for urban affairs at the University of Chicago’s Office ...