Black Climate Week (Feb. 21–28, 2026) is not symbolic for us. It is survival. In Cleveland and across Northeast Ohio, climate change is not a distant threat it is intensifying existing health disparities that Black communities have faced for generations. According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Black Americans are 40 percent more likely than the overall U.S. population to live in areas with the highest projected increases in extreme temperature–related dea