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12/18/2020 8:27 AM
The Connecting Fairfax City for All initiative to study racial and social equity in Fairfax City is moving forward. Several important actions have been taken since city council s approval of the initiative on October 27, 2020.
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Selecting the Stakeholder Group
A diverse group of 15 stakeholders will facilitate community voices and make recommendations to the mayor and city council based on feedback gathered throughout the process.
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Positions were set aside for one representative from Historic Fairfax City, Inc., Mosby Woods Community Association, and the local Neighbors for Change group. The remaining 12 stakeholders will be selected from the community at large.
The racial reckoning with Confederate monuments seems new But it dates back more than a century
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The racial reckoning with Confederate monuments seems new But it dates back more than a century
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December 10, 2020
Cities across the United States, particularly in the South, are struggling with the legacies of their Confederate past, including monuments that have sparked renewed protest and calls for removal in recent years most recently after the nationwide protests sparked by the killings of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, and Breonna Taylor this spring.
But how mayors deal with monuments that represent past injustice can be politically challenging and controversial.
A new teaching case, “Reckoning with History: Confederate Monuments in American Cities,” focuses on how mayors in three cities Baltimore, Maryland; Lexington, Kentucky; and Charleston, South Carolina grappled with the removal of Confederate monuments and flags in their public parks and plazas in the aftermath of hate crimes in Charleston in 2015 and Charlottesville, Virginia in 2017.