Week in Rap 10/15/21

True or False: The Juneteenth holiday will replace Columbus Day as a federal holiday.

• True

• False

Indigenous activists pressured the president to declare a state of emergency due to ________.

• climate change

• the COVID-19 pandemic

• food contamination

• cybersecurity breaches

The Indigenous activists also called on the president to ban ________ that threaten their water safety.

• plastics

• pesticides

• power plants

• pipelines

The WHO has approved the first vaccine to treat ________ in children.

• Zika virus

• malaria

• typhus

• Lyme disease

The vaccine’s trial involved how many kids?

• 1,000

• 75,000

• 400,000

• 800,000

A union representing ________ voted to authorize a strike.

• movie crews

• restaurant workers

• video game developers

• hotel cleaners

Which of these is a reason why the union has approved a strike?

• High wages

• Long hours

• Staffing shortages

• Unsafe working conditions

This year’s Nobel Prize in Literature went to Abdulrazak Gurnah, a novelist from ________.

• Kenya

• Nigeria

• Tanzania

• South Africa

He’s the first Black writer to win since 1993, when ________ won the award.

• Maya Angelou

• Ralph Ellison

• Octavia E. Butler

• Toni Morrison

Joe Biden became the first president to recognize October 11 as ________.

• Juneteenth

• Civil Rights Day

• Indigenous Peoples’ Day

• Cesar Chavez Day