Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Civil Rights

Demonstrators penned in on Fifth Avenue at a protest outside Trump Tower last November.

A Plea for de Blasio to Support Free Expression With Better Public Spaces

By Brad Aaron | Jan 12, 2017 | 2 Comments

With New Yorkers aching to make themselves heard by the incoming president, a coalition of planning and advocacy groups wants Mayor de Blasio to improve public access to key streets and gathering places. Among other recommendations, the groups urge the mayor to turn Fifth Avenue and 14th Street into pedestrian and transit zones.

TA: Traffic Justice Must Align With Racial Justice

By David Meyer | Nov 15, 2016 | No Comments

In a letter to members yesterday, Transportation Alternatives laid out a set of guiding principles for integrating racial justice into efforts to make NYC streets safe for walking and biking.

Andrew Cuomo and Chuck Schumer must resist the urge to collaborate with Donald Trump on infrastructure. Trump photo via Gage Skidmore/Flickr; Schumer photo via NASA/Bill Ingalls/Wikimedia Commons

Do Not Collaborate With Hatred

By Ben Fried | Nov 14, 2016 | 157 Comments

Andrew Cuomo and Chuck Schumer must refrain from making any overtures unless and until Trump conclusively renounces, with complete and utter finality, the racist, anti-democratic platform that he campaigned on.

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“Law-and-Order,” the Resilience of White Supremacy, and You

By Sahra Sulaiman | Nov 10, 2016 | No Comments

“Where do things stand now?” I asked Adonia Lugo as we organized potential discussion themes ahead of this Sunday’s Untokening event. Election results were just starting to roll in from the East Coast, she replied, and they weren’t looking good for Hillary. Perhaps we should relabel the event ‘The UnTrumpening,’ I mused. We were already […]

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LA County Bike Coalition’s Tamika Butler on Planning While Black

By Angie Schmitt | Sep 30, 2016 | No Comments

Too often, says Tamika Butler, the people responsible for planning cities don’t look like the people who live in cities. In her keynote address from this week’s NACTO Designing Cities conference, she considers some of the ramifications. Butler is executive director of the Los Angeles County Bicycle Coalition and a national leader in the field of active transportation and racial justice. Her talk begins […]

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Civil Rights Advocates Challenge Missouri DOT’s Discriminatory Spending

By Angie Schmitt | Sep 7, 2016 | No Comments

Missouri, like many other states, shifts transportation funds from cities to rural areas — it collects most gas tax revenue from urban areas and spends it on roads in the hinterlands. And as in many other states, this amounts to a massive transfer of resources from the places where most people of color live. But […]

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