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Edmonds Arts Commission announces 2021 one-time grant awards Posted: March 10, 2021 380
In response to the negative impact of the pandemic on the arts in Edmonds, the City of Edmonds Arts Commission has funded one-time grants for Edmonds-based non-profit arts organizations and artists in the 2021 budget.
According to a city announcement, the purpose of this new grant program was “to help build and reinforce a diverse, accessible and equitable cultural community in Edmonds, recognizing the uncertainty and challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the necessity of changing strategies to create access for all to the arts.”
Seeking to support creativity, diversity and inclusive access to arts in the community, two categories of grants were offered: small grants of up to $1,000 for individual artists and other smaller organizations, and large grants of up to $10,000, which required a local nonprofit or a partnership with one for eligibility.
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Scottish Conservative MSP Miles Briggs has criticised the proposals (Image: Getty)
One of its chief targets is a statue of celebrated Scottish poet Robert Burns because he once “accepted a job working on a Jamaican plantation in a role he described as a ‘Negro driver’.”
David Hume, one of western civilisation’s most influential philosophers, has already had a tower in the city named after him reanointed, 40 George Square.
It came after an outcry because of comments on race he made in the 18th century.
Scottish Conservative MSP Miles Briggs said that while it is important to be aware of the legacy of Scotland s involvement in the slave trade he would not advocate taking disproportionate action .
On Tuesday, Feb. 23, the Student Government Associationâs Diversity Commission and Matthew Gaines Society led a virtual town hall and diversity panel open for student body president candidates.
Candidates Natalie Parks and Charlie Frawley were present in the panel, along with a proxy for Josh Feldman. Feldman and candidates Blake Martin and Matt Ryan were not present, as they were attending a separate virtual debate addressing free speech.
The event was hosted by SGA Diversity Commissioner Lily Pieper, the commissionâs Vice President of Staff Tori Davis and Matthew Gaines Society President Erica Pauls. The questions for the panel portion of the event were submitted by students.
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 17, 2021 /PRNewswire/ The following is a statement from Marcus W. King, President of Teamsters Local 331 and Director of the Teamsters Human Rights and Diversity Commission: As we reflect upon all of the progress our country and our union have made for racial equality, we are reminded that our work is far from finished. The history of our union and the history of the civil rights movement are deeply intertwined, just as the work we do today for racial and economic justice is deeply intertwined. In 1917, the Teamsters won a clause in a contract for women laundry workers that required equal pay regardless of race – the first such color blind contract clause of its kind. Today union contracts are indispensable to narrowing the racial wealth gap. Black and white Teamsters rode buses together to Washington so they could lobby in favor of the civil rights act, just as today black and white Teamsters visit state capitols th