Climate change has forced America’s oldest Black town to higher ground

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By Jake BittleJul 10, 2024, 4:15 am238 pts
Princeville, North Carolina, the oldest community in the United States founded by formerly enslaved people, has been trapped in a cycle of disaster and disinvestment for decades. The town of around 1,200 people sits on a plain below the banks of the Tar River, and it has flooded more than a dozen times in the…

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