Texas Blackouts Hit Minority Neighborhoods Especially Hard
James Dobbins and Hiroko Tabuchi, New York Times
Feb. 16, 2021
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Jorge and Fidel Benitez grill meat outside their home in Austin, Texas, Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2021, as they have been without power since Sunday evening. Huge winter storms have plunged large parts of the central and southern United States into an energy crisis this week as frigid blasts of Arctic weather crippled electric grids and left millions of Americans without power amid dangerously cold temperatures. (Ilana Panich-Linsman/The New York Times)Ilana Panich-linsman/NYT
SAN ANTONIO When the lights went out Monday night in the Alazán-Apache housing project in San Antonio which stands in one of the city’s poorest ZIP codes the traffic signals in the neighborhood flickered off and storekeepers pulled down their shutters.
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