News Briefs 10/19/21
Oct. 21 author presentation reset
Due to a last-minute conflict in the author’s schedule, the History Book Festival program set for Thursday, Oct. 21, has been moved to Thursday, Dec. 16.
Educator, journalist and author Howard W. French will discuss his book, “Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War,” with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Dele Olojede.
The Zoom-based program begins at 5 p.m., with a question-and-answer session following the discussion.
The program is free, but preregistration is required; to reserve a spot, visit historybookfestival.org. People who signed up for the Oct. 21 program have been preregistered for the new date.
Youth group plans Oct. 22 climate change action
Fridays for Future Delaware will hold a demonstration from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m., Friday, Oct. 22, at The Circle in Georgetown to urge local, state and federal governments to act now to change the trajectory of global warming.
Fridays for Future Delaware is part of a global movement of high school and college students inspired by Greta Thunberg, who at age 15, sat in front of the Swedish parliament every school day for three weeks in 2018 to protest its lack of action on the climate crisis.
She has inspired young people on every continent to fight to reduce carbon emissions drastically in order to avoid irreversible and catastrophic levels of temperature rise. The groups also fight for climate justice and equity.
Jack Thompson, Fridays for Future Delaware president, hopes the rally in Georgetown will be a multigenerational event and invites the public to attend. Participants are encouraged to bring a sign showing their support for climate action on local, state or national government levels.
For information about Fridays for Future Delaware, text Thompson at 302-538-1428.
Humanists to present climate change program Oct. 20
The Humanists of Southern Delaware Environmental Program will host presenter John Sykes of Delaware Interfaith Power and Light for an online program at 4 p.m., Wednesday, Oct. 20.
Time magazine recently published an article titled Widespread and Severe. The Climate Crisis Is Here, But There’s Still Time to Limit the Damage.
Sykes will discuss climate change, its causes, America’s opinions, possible solutions and what people must do to leave behind a livable habitat, as well as the principle that no matter how much people lower their own individual carbon footprints, it won’t matter until governments regulate the big-time polluters.
Charles Bittner, a Humanists of Southern Delaware leader, said, “We have chosen environmentalism as our October theme, as it is one of the 10 Commitments of the American Humanist Association. The work and accomplishments of DEIPL are impressive, and we want to be aware of not only the damage being caused by climate change, but what we can do to make an impact locally and worldwide.”
The program is free to attend. For more information and to request the Zoom link, contact Christopher Guidone at hello@humanistsofsdelaware.org.
Humanists of Southern Delaware is a local chapter of the American Humanist Association.
Preservation Delaware to hold annual meeting online
Preservation Delaware Inc.’s annual meeting and conference will open at 9:30 a.m., Thursday, Oct. 21, with a presentation from Katherine Malone-France, chief preservation officer for the National Trust for Historic Preservation.
The focus will be on current challenges and opportunities regarding historic preservation in Delaware. Topics to be explored include community-based preservation, unique and often overlooked cultural resources, historic preservation legislation, African American history in Delaware, and the intersection of disaster planning and cultural resource management.
All sessions are free and registration is required. For a detailed schedule and to register, go to eventbrite.com/e/pdi-annual-conference-meeting-preservation-progress-tickets-180163171897. Interested participants may attend a single session or all.
Links for each conference day will be sent to registrants in advance.
To learn more, go to preservationde.org.
