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Living Cities Announces “Year of Reckoning” Work in Cities Across the Nation
February 25, 2021 GMT
WASHINGTON, Feb. 25, 2021 /PRNewswire/ The unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic, an economic downturn and ongoing racial unrest are evidence that the United States needs a historical reckoning to understand how a history of inequity has led us to the current state of affairs. Living Cities, in partnership with the People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond, Third Space Action Lab, Gumbo Media, and others, is engaging six cities Albuquerque, NM; Austin, TX; Memphis, TN; Minneapolis, MN; Rochester, NY; and Saint Paul, MN in a “Year of Reckoning” as part of its Closing the Gaps Network. Through their work, local government leaders will come together with the philanthropic, private, and non-profit sectors to reckon with the history of systemic racism, develop shared language and analysis, a