Thursday's News & Ideas - 7/29/2021
- Voting rights march
- SCOTUS ‘shadow docket’
- Why is CRT being banned?
- Chilean priest dies
- Mortal cost of carbon
- Black neighborhoods & highways
‘This is our Selma moment,’ clergy leaders announce on eve of 27-mile voting rights march to Austin
Religion News Service: On Wednesday (July 28), the Rev. William J. Barber II will lead clergy and laypeople on a four-day, 27-mile march from Georgetown to Austin, Texas, to protest the rollback of voting rights and demand federal action.
U.S. Supreme Court’s ‘shadow docket’ favored religion and Trump
Reuters: The “shadow docket” decides emergency applications in a process that critics have said lacks transparency.
Why is critical race theory being banned in public schools?
Religion & Politics: On its face, religion appears most relevant to the current attacks against CRT because of the movement’s particular players.
Karadima, priest defrocked for sexual abuses, dies in Chile
Associated Press: Fernando Karadima, a Chilean priest who was at the center of a sexual abuse scandal in the Catholic Church in Chile has died at 90.
Three Americans create enough carbon emissions to kill one person, study finds
The Guardian: The analysis draws on public health studies that conclude that for every 4,434 metric tons of CO2 produced, one person globally will die.
The Spark
What it looks like to reconnect Black communities torn apart by highways
Take any major American city and you’re likely to find a historically Black neighborhood* demolished, gashed in two, or cut off from the rest of the city by a highway, CityLab says.
*access is limited for nonsubscribers
