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Incidents targeting Jews in Colorado reached second-highest level in the last 10 years, according to annual ADL report
Denver, CO, April 27, 2021 … Antisemitic incidents remained at a historically high level across the United States in 2020, with a total of 2,024 incidents of assault, harassment and vandalism reported to ADL (the Anti-Defamation League). While antisemitic incidents declined by 4 percent nationwide after hitting an all-time high in 2019, last year was still the third-highest year for incidents against American Jews since ADL started tracking such data in 1979.
ADL’s annual Audit of Antisemitic Incidents, released today, showed little change in Colorado compared to 2019. There were 60 reported incidents in 2020 compared to 61 in 2019. 2019 and 2020 had the two highest levels of antisemitic incidents in the past 10 years in Colorado.
Carbon Mapper Launches Satellite Program to Pinpoint Methane and Carbon Dioxide Super Emitters
SAN FRANCISCO, April 15, 2021 /PRNewswire/
Carbon Mapper, a new nonprofit organization, and its partners - the State of California, NASA s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (NASA JPL), Planet, the University of Arizona, Arizona State University (ASU), High Tide Foundation and RMI - today announced a pioneering program to help improve understanding of and accelerate reductions in global methane and carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. In addition, the Carbon Mapper consortium announced its plan to deploy a ground-breaking hyperspectral satellite constellation with the ability to pinpoint, quantify and track point-source methane and CO2 emissions.
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Through her writing, Wilkerson brings the invisible and the marginalized into the light. In her lectures, she explores with authority the need to reconcile America’s karmic inheritance and the origins of both our divisions and our shared commonality.
Wilkerson is a native of Washington, D.C., and a daughter of the Great Migration, the mass movement that she would go on to write about. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing in 1994 as Chicago Bureau chief of The New York Times, making her the first African-American woman to win a Pulitzer Prize in journalism.