Cities creating racial ‘healing` committees to confront past
(WorldNews Mexico)

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A growing number of cities across the U.S. are creating committees and task force panels aimed at discussing racial tensions and confronting the past. From Albuquerque, New Mexico, to Clemson, South Carolina, towns and municipalities recently have formed committees to deliberate the future of debated Confederate and Spanish colonial monuments or address systemic racism in police departments. In some communities, religious leaders are forming their own racial healing committees to devote attention to racism. Phoenix Roman Catholic Bishop Thomas...