Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Civil Rights

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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Naomi Doerner on How Street Safety Advocates Can Support Racial Justice

By Angie Schmitt | Jul 22, 2016 | No Comments

When a police officer in Falcon Heights, Minnesota, shot and killed Philando Castile earlier this month, the encounter began with a traffic stop. The stop fit a pattern: Castile had been pulled over many times before — 46 times in 13 years — but few of those citations were for dangerous driving. More prevalent were stops for minor issues like […]

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The Right to Peaceful Assembly vs. the “Right” to Convenient Motoring

By Angie Schmitt | Jul 11, 2016 | No Comments

Demonstrations against police brutality spilled onto streets and highways in American cities this weekend, with protesters stopping traffic in Baton Rouge, Memphis, St. Paul, Los Angeles, and Oakland. NPR reports 102 people were arrested in St. Paul and another 120 in Baton Rouge, including prominent Black Lives Matter organizer DeRay Mckesson, who was arrested while walking along […]

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