4/ “Conservation history is full of people who did the right things for the wrong reasons.”
Journalist @nijhuism joins @BenjiSJones on Vox Conversations to discuss the conservation movement's many characters, plus the standout successes and ugly truths.
1/ Jasmine Holloway, a mom of three, is one of millions of Americans who lost their job during the pandemic.
But thanks to the US economic response to Covid-19, Jasmine is financially better off now than before the pandemic started. bit.ly/3eYMzNx
2/ From a lack of social distancing to inadequate contact tracing and scarce testing, the US failed to contain its early outbreak.
But the decision to ramp up spending to support families and businesses was a key factor in saving the economy from a 2008-like collapse.
3/ Expanded unemployment benefits and stimulus checks allowed Jasmine to take care of her family and create a previously unattainable financial safety net.
She knows it’s temporary, but says the support “has enabled me to do things I’ve only dreamed about doing for my family.”
2/ Judas and the Black Messiah has six Oscar nods. The electrifying film is based on the true story of Illinois Black Panther Party chair Fred Hampton’s assassination in 1969 and the FBI informant who infiltrated the organization to enable it. bit.ly/3rUtL79
3/ David Fincher's Mank raked in the most Oscar nominations of any movie. It's a classic Oscar movie with an edge, the tale of the man who wrote Citizen Kane and the dawn of a new Hollywood era. bit.ly/38JZvUV
Unexplainable is our new science podcast about the most fascinating unanswered questions in science and the mind-bending ways scientists are trying to answer them.
2/ First up: Scientists all over the world are searching for dark matter: an invisible, untouchable substance that holds our universe together. But they haven’t found it. Are they chasing a ghost?
3/ Next: Scientists still don't understand exactly how the human nose works.
But this mystery isn't holding researchers back from building a robot nose with artificial intelligence. The hope is that the robot nose can eventually detect diseases.
1/ Sharon Lavigne lives in St. James Parish, Louisiana, a predominantly Black town with one of the highest cancer risk levels from air pollution in the US.
Years of pollution from nearby chemical plants has affected residents’ health — including hers. bit.ly/3dLQwpG
2/ After being diagnosed with pollution-linked autoimmune hepatitis and seeing neighbors die from other illnesses, she started RISE St. James, a faith-based environmental justice group that aims to prevent more industrial developments in their neighborhood.
3/ RISE St. James is trying to prevent the construction of a $9.4 billion plastic plant that could double the amount of toxic chemicals already in the area.
It’s just one example of how Black neighborhoods in the US have been fighting back against industrial pollution.
EXCLUSIVE: More than a dozen current and former Amazon corporate employees told @delrey that they saw a pattern of systemic racial bias at the company, which affected Black employees’ career growth and personal lives. vox.com/recode/2021/2/…
Chanin Kelly-Rae, a former diversity leader at Amazon, quit her job there after 10 months.
“Amazon was not doing things in a way that represents best practices that would advance diversity and inclusion in any way that is meaningful and thoughtful,” Kelly-Rae told @Recode.
Several Black Amazon women employees say they and their peers faced microaggressions from coworkers and managers.
One white male manager told a Black female colleague, “My ancestors owned slaves, but I’m pretty sure they were good to their slaves.”