The debate over human rights issues related to DeKalb County’s “Indian War” cannon has now reached the U.S. Supreme Court, even as a new resolution to remove the cannon is pending before DeKalb County’s Board of Commissioners.
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Creating liberated spaces: Lessons from Decatur
By Guest Columnists FONTA HIGH and PAUL MCLENNAN, co-chairs of the Beacon Hill Black Alliance for Human Rights’ Decolonize Decatur Committee
As organizers and board members of Decatur’s Beacon Hill Black Alliance for Human Rights, we are grateful for all we have learned from our movement-building work over the last year. We believe we are creating an organizing model other communities can replicate.
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Atlanta’s new missing, murdered children’s memorial: ‘Never forget these souls’
An eternal flame memorial dedicated to Atlanta’s missing and murdered children is to be installed on the grounds of Atlanta City Hall. The names of 30 missing children are to be inscribed as “a testament that those lives mattered.”
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‘I wish you’d broken all the rules’ – A memorial to those who’ve lost someone to COVID-19
“I wish you’d broken all the rules” is a haunting refrain in a memorial written by a Swedish performing artist whose friend died of a heart attack, and not COVID-19, after the South by Southwest event was cancelled and with it their planned performance.
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Different visions for Georgia’s Confederate monuments aired in state Senate committee
DeKalb County’s got a situation: it wants to get rid of the massive Confederate monument that it owns in downtown Decatur. But nobody wants it.
