​Monumental Struggles: The Power to Unite or Divide

​Battles over Confederate flags and monuments persist and suggest that the issues fought over in the American Civil War and Civil Rights Movement are unresolved. How we confront symbols of statues, flags and anthems determine the extent of domestic tranquility we can achieve as a nation. How can public commemoration shape a collective narrative that builds, rather than strains the ties that bind us together?

In Feb. 2021, Global Citizens Circle (GCC) addressed this question in a stirring circle. Discussion leaders included American politician, lawyer and author Mitch Landrieu, whose book, “In the Shadow of Statues: A White Southerner Confronts History,” speaks to his personal journey confronting the issue of race and institutional racism that still plagues America. 
 
Circle discussion leaders also included Imari Paris Jefferies, Ph.D., Tracyann Williams, and Dr. Craig Stutman. 

​This important circle discussion is now part of GCC’s engaging Dialogue2Action series. The overview video can be viewed below. Review the discussion guide here.
 
There’s never been a better time to participate in one of GCC’s Dialogue2Action discussions with your friends, colleagues, and community. 
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There is a difference between remembrance of history and reverence of it.

- Former New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu, from his 2017 speech on the removal of Confederate monuments in New Orleans