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This month's bookshelf highlights writings illustrating the 'inconvenient truth' that communities of color suffer most, and most severely, 'when disaster strikes.' The COVID-19 pandemic has confirmed again a fundamental truth about the Anthropocene: When disaster strikes, the vulnerable take the hardest punches. Communities of color have suffered much higher rates of infection, hospitalization, and mortality, both because they are disproportionately represented in frontline service positions and because their access to routine healthcare is more limited. This pattern has long been observed in...

. "As we head into a new administration, we have a new opportunity to talk about how we cover climate change, and how we can do that equitably," said th and an MSNBC contributor, who moderated the webinar's panel discussion.  Covering Climate Equitably contains information, practical tips and case studies for journalists who want to produce climate and clean energy stories that center the views, experiences, and leadership of people of color and low-income communities on the frontlines of the climate crisis. These communities — which disproportionately face climate impacts such as ris...