News: Black World
- Monique Stallings
- Jul 11
- 3 min read
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Fam, 500-year floods. 1,000-year floods. What was once extreme weather has become the norm, and Americans are losing their lives and homes as a result. Last Friday, as Donald Trump signed his budget bill — which guts environmental justice efforts — a climate change-driven storm was dumping buckets of rain on Texas. At least 120 people died, and hundreds of homes were destroyed. But that wasn't the only catastrophic storm this past week. Flash flooding also hit New Mexico and North Carolina. In Fayetteville, Greensboro, and Raleigh, rainfall totals are as much as 600% of normal. And I'm getting an up-close look at flooding, too. At my apartment building in Atlanta, several first-floor residents were displaced after floodwater invaded their homes — and more torrential rain is in the forecast. Why is this happening? Activist and poet Dr. Mustafa Ali says, "Deep down, we already know the answer. The floods are not freak occurrences. They are the price tag of delay, denial, and political convenience. They’re the result of pretending nature’s warnings are just background noise." The question he poses: Are we willing to change the way we live to save lives? “Evolving means we build not just for today, but for the storms of tomorrow,” Ali writes for Word In Black. “We need climate-resilient housing, early warning systems that reach every ZIP code, and elected officials who don’t wait for polling numbers to rise before they act. We need to stop pretending adaptation is optional.” Be well, Nadira Jamerson Digital editor
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On July 11, 1905, W. E. B. Du Bois, William Monroe Trotter, and 27 other attendees convened near Niagara Falls, on the Canadian side of the border, to develop a plan to advance racial equity and freedom for Black Americans. Their demands included freedom of speech and press, manhood suffrage, the abolition of caste distinctions based on race, and a belief in the dignity of labor. They formed the Niagara Movement, which met annually until 1910 and helped pave the way for the formation of the NAACP.
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