"To be a civil rights activist, to be a writer, to be a lawyer, and later decide 'I’m going to be a priest' Pauli helps me to understand that we can be as much as we want to be."
Low income communities of color in urban areas are more likely to experience extreme heat because of historically unequal policies and investment around development and zoning. A new, national effort hopes to identify and eventually address these "urban heat islands."
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Beckey Hernandez, of Raleigh, was one of them. I was just more or less living on the streets and living in a tent, and it just, I was so confused with my life, she told ABC11.
So three local charities recently found a way to combine their efforts to raise cash to help Hernandez and other women like her find their way back to a sense of normalcy.
It s called the Triangle Impact Tote project, a project Hernandez recently took part in. The people here are wonderful. They ve got a heart, Hernandez said.
The 59-year-old came to Raleigh three years ago but never found a steady job or a place to live.