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Saturday, September 21, 2024

Hello! In this issue:
* This week, host Al Letson explores Black life in Florida.
* How our retirement money might be fueling climate change.

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** THIS WEEK’S PODCAST
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** Black in the Sunshine State
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Teachers, students, and labor leaders protest Florida's new academic standards for teaching Black history in Miami in August 2023. Credit: Michele Eve Sandberg/Sipa USA/Sipa via AP Images

In the summer of 2023, Reveal host Al Letson felt compelled to return home to Jacksonville, Florida. His best friend had recently passed away following a long battle with cancer, and he wanted to be close to the place where they became men together.

But when he arrived, he found a city and state he barely recognized.

In recent years, the Republican-dominated legislature has passed a slate of laws targeting minority groups. Educators could now face criminal penalties over the material they teach regarding gender and sexuality. Schools across the state have banned books about queer families, transgender youth, and Black history.

Many of these legislative changes were part of Gov. Ron DeSantis’ so-called “war on woke,” launched ahead of his failed bid for the presidency. This week on Reveal, Letson examines Black life in Florida, following a rare travel advisory by the NAACP stating that “Florida is openly hostile toward African Americans, people of color, and LGBTQ+ individuals.”


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** A Quote to Remember
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“We don't believe that those companies will do what we need them to do to get us out of this climate crisis that we're currently in. And so, we are providing the solutions that we wish they would provide.”

In 2021, Alex Wright-Gladstein started a climate-friendly investment firm called Sphere, which offers an index fund that excludes fossil fuels. Even though big firms like Vanguard and BlackRock have funds marketed as more socially responsible and climate-friendly, many of them still include oil and gas companies.

Last week, Reveal’s Jonathan Jones dug into how common it is for retirement funds to be bankrolling fossil fuels and what consumers can do about it.

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