Bloomberg Philanthropies, in collaboration with Harvard University, announced today an expansion of support for city leaders with a new, $150 million investment to establish the University-wide Bloomberg Center for Cities at Harvard University. This center builds upon the success of the Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative, a collaboration between Bloomberg Philanthropies, Harvard Kennedy School, and Harvard Business School established in 2017, and will strengthen the capabilities of mayors and their teams, advance effective organizational practices in city halls around the world, support a new generation of public servants as they encounter unprecedented challenges in the years to come, and produce new research and instructional materials that will help city leaders.
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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.