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After removal, communities must face the enormous challenge of remaking divisive public spaces into places that promote healing and reconciliation. We suggest that communities confronting these issues and seeking a way forward look at the recent experience in the city of Memphis. As part of a national, multicity effort, a collaboration of public and non-profit partners in Memphis has transformed a six-city block area adjacent to downtown and the Mississippi River called the Fourth Bluff into a series of connected, vibrant and dynamic spaces that include a library, a trail and two parks. This ...

SARASOTA – “I will plant a lot of flowers. I will be kind to others so they will be kind to others too.” One-fifth of Americans were born with no memory of the millennial paranoia that enveloped the globe as the curtains fell on the 20th century. Anxiety over potential glitches in digital calendrical transitions triggered fears of nuclear reactor shutdowns, airliners falling from the sky, and collapsing power grids. And end-times prophecies that historically ramp up at the close of each century fed those survivalist jitters. On the other hand, there was plenty to be optimistic about. ...

Rotary club peace garden competition for schools across Coventry and Warwickshire Schools are being asked to submit Peace Garden designs Westgate School pupils at Peace Pole planting Never miss another Warwickshire story by signing up to our free email updatesInvalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Subscribe When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Your information will be used in accordance with ourPrivacy Notice. Thank you for subscribingWe have more newslettersShow meSee ourprivacy notice School pupils across Coventry and ...

SCHOOL pupils across Stourbridge, Halesowen and the Black Country are being invited to design a garden as part of a peace and mental wellbeing campaign The Peace Pole competition is part of a drive by the Heart of England Rotary Clubs to tackle the underlying causes of conflict, including poverty, discrimination, lack of access to education, and unequal distribution of resources. Schools are invited to submit a design for a Peace Garden, and the winning entry will be presented with their own bespoke Peace Pole. The competition covers Stourbridge, Hagley, Rowley Regis, Halesowen, Clien...

Going nowhere fast If 2020 was a year of bitter disappointment and demoralisation for the Labour left, then 2021 is shaping up to be no better, writes James Harvey The questions that many party members began asking in the aftermath of the December 2019 election defeat, Keir Starmer’s election as Labour leader in April 2020 and the suspension of Jeremy Corbyn in October 2020 continue to be unacknowledged, let alone answered by Labour’s official left. As the witch-hunt against the left intensifies, the silence of those MPs and organisations expected to lead the fightback remains deafening. ...