The week's good news: November 15, 2018

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1. Poems written by Houston residents inspire colorful community murals

A Houston neighborhood is now home to 12 special murals that merge art with poetry. The Gulfton neighborhood is one of the most diverse in Texas, with residents coming from more than 40 different countries. Many are immigrants, and Dr. Aisha Siddiqui created a nonprofit called Culture of Health — Advancing Together (CHAT) for those in need of a strong support system. "This land of opportunity is great but daunting for people," Siddiqui said. Art is "a universal language," she added, and "helps make people take ownership of communities." To bring art to Gulfton, CHAT partnered with several nonprofits to launch the Gulfton Story Trail Mural Project. Community members wrote poems about the neighborhood, and local artists then selected their favorites and painted murals based on the poetry. The colorful murals "make it more welcoming," Siddiqui said, and give people "the sense that someone cares for them."

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Catherine Garcia, The Week US

Catherine Garcia has worked as a senior writer at The Week since 2014. Her writing and reporting have appeared in Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, Wirecutter, NBC News and "The Book of Jezebel," among others. She's a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.