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Instead, the discussion of those issues took up all the meeting s allotted time and more.
The discussion included some suggestions for addressing some of those issues. It began with Wilson listing some of the obvious issues: diversity in City Hall staffing and hiring; affordable housing; education; police reform and police and fire department recruitment; and culture.
Wilson suggested developing a pipeline with Gadsden State Community College and Jacksonville State University to get qualified candidates for openings at the city. He said there are fewer Black and female applicants, perhaps because they don t think they would get the job anyway, or because they want to work in a more diverse workplace.
Historian has suggestion to resolve Alabama Confederate monument controversy
Updated Dec 13, 2020;
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Historian Camille Agricola Bowman is offering a solution to the controversy over Gadsden’s Emma Sansom monument use it as a teaching tool to reflect the changing interpretations of history.
The issue of how to handle the monument in downtown Gadsden, which was erected in 1906 by the United Daughters of the Confederacy, has been a controversial one for a while now, dovetailing with the national Black Lives Matter movement in the wake of numerous police killings of Black people.
Other monuments around the nation have been cited as being racist against other minorities or demeaning to women.
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