21 Things we liked and hated about 2021

6:54 Pipelines along Indigenous land important wildlife reserves

Herr, Alexandria. 2021. An Illustrated guide to 2021’s pipeline battles. Grist.org. Retrieved from https://grist.org/indigenous/an-illustrated-guide-to-2021s-pipeline-battles/

12:21 Bell Hooks

Risen, Clay. 2021. Bell Hooks, Pathbreaking Black Feminist, DIes at 69. New York Times. Retrieved from https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/15/books/bell-hooks-dead.html

18:41 Outcome of the Kyle Rittenhouse case

Sullivan, Becky. 2021. Kyle Rittenhouse is acquitted of all charges in the trail over killing 2 in Kenosha. National Public Radio. Retrieved from https://www.npr.org/2021/11/19/1057288807/kyle-rittenhouse-acquitted-all-charges-verdict

23:44 Voting Laws Challenged

Kusisto, Laura. 2021. Voting Rights: A Legal Battle Is Under Way Across the U.S. as Election-related Litigation Surges. The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved from https://www.wsj.com/articles/new-voting-laws-face-court-challenges-across-the-u-s-11626696001 

26:47 Perseverance Landing on Mars

Palca, Joe. 2021. NASA’s Rover Perseverance Safely Lands on Mars.  National Public Radio. https://www.npr.org/2021/02/19/969351669/nasas-rover-perseverance-safely-lands-on-mars

28:30 Tornado in Lexington, Ky and other states

Romero, ., Acevedo, N., Arcodia, J., and Farivar, C. 2021. Recovery efforts begin after tornadoes rip through several states, killing dozens. NBC News. Retrieved from https://www.nbcnews.com/news/weather/2-dead-arkansas-possible-tornadoes-heavy-weather-strike-us-rcna8451

34:18 Texas Abortion Challenges

Breuninger, K. and Mangan, D. 2021. Supreme Court allows lawsuit challenging Texas abortion ban to continue but keeps law in effect for now. CNBC. Retrieved from https://www.cnbc.com/2021/12/10/supreme-court-issues-opinion-on-texas-abortion-law-challenges.html

37:16 National Science Policy Network (NSPN)

https://scipolnetwork.org/

38:47 Texas Power Grid Failure

Miller, R.W. 2021. ‘Massive failure’: Why are millions of people in Texas still without power?. USA Today News. Retrieved from https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/news/nation/2021/02/16/texas-weather-power-outage-rolling-blackouts-leave-millions-dark/6764764002/

42: 00 January 6th Insurrection

NPR Staff. 2021. The Capitol siege: The cases behind the biggest criminal investigation in U.S. history. National Public Radio. Retrieved from https://www.npr.org/2021/02/09/965472049/the-capitol-siege-the-arrested-and-their-stories

Black Science Coalition and Institute. 2020. B-SCI URGES CONGRESS to invoke the 25th Amendment. Retrieved from https://www.b-sci.org/b-sci-statement-on-capitol-riots

45:00 BlackInX Conference

https://www.blackinx.org/conference

48:10 COP 26

Volcovici, Valerie. 2021. U.N. climate chief: COP26 puts nations on notice to  act fast. Reuters. Retrieved from https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/un-climate-chief-cop26-put-nations-notice-act-fast-2021-12-08/

56:20 Vaccination Totals (Globally)

https://ourworldindata.org/covid-vaccinations?country=OWID_WRL

56:39 Pandemic Continues

Callaway, Ewen. and Ledford, Heidi. 2021. How bad is Omicron? What scientists know so far. Nature. Retrieved from https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-03614-z

The Visual and Data Journalism Team. 2021. Covid map: Coronavirus cases, deaths, vaccinations by country. BBC News. Retrieved from https://www.bbc.com/news/world-51235105