Neighborhoods with large Latinx, Black and Asian populations are a lot hotter than their white counterparts and also get less shade from trees. According to a study conducted by UC Davis researchers, heavily Latinx neighborhoods in Los Angeles were 6.7 degrees hotter than neighborhoods with fewer Latinx residents during extreme heat days. They’re also not exclusive to Los Angeles. With the pandemic, unemployment, income inequality and now “thermal inequities,” the Latinx community is bearing the brunt of another crisis. And now for something a little different ...(Yanely Rivas / For The Times )Yanely Rivas is a working-class Xicana, printmaker and visual artist with ancestral roots in the mountains and lakes of Michoacán, Mexico.

Source: Los Angeles Times November 04, 2021 23:58 UTC