Legacy of Redlining
Streetsblog LA
Art, the Crenshaw/LAX Line, and the Stories We (Don’t) Tell at Train Stations
Given the role public investment can have in reshaping marginalized communities, what responsibilities does Metro have as an entity that seeks to tell stories about the places it moves people through?
November 1, 2018
As Vermont/Manchester Transportation School Moves Forward, Community Reckons with Past, Wrestles with Form Change Should Take
For black stakeholders eager to shed the despised "Death Alley" label and address the damage rooted in segregationist policies, the stakes feel especially high
October 16, 2018
As L.A. Ramps up Efforts to Get People off the Streets, a Young Man Struggles to Stay Housed
Before the connection cuts, I hear the plea underlying the panic that pushed him to this point: "Officer, I don't have nowhere else to go."
September 7, 2018
Los Ryderz Celebrate Six Years of Community-Building in Watts
It's tough love, to be sure. But the love couldn't be more genuine, and the members of the club have always known it.
May 10, 2018
“I Can’t Go Everywhere that I Thought I Could Go”: When Black and Brown Cyclists Need Safety from More than Traffic
"I knew where I was," muses Slimm, the 25-year-old road captain from the Los Ryderz Bike Club regarding his fateful decision to roll past 65th on Broadway - the heart of East Coast Crips territory, "but I was just riding by..."
May 1, 2018
The Color of Law & Residential Segregation: A “Walking Toward Justice” Webinar
A conversation about how to have uncomfortable conversations, moderated by Charles T. Brown and featuring Tamika Butler, Sahra Sulaiman, Sonia Jimenez, and author Richard Rothstein.
September 28, 2017
Ancestors v. Polka Dots: Some Thoughts on Approaches to “Place-Making”
In many historically marginalized urban neighborhoods, decades of disenfranchisement and the repressive policing that accompanied it created great insecurity in the public space and, over time, eroded bonds of social trust between neighbors. With the public space essentially rendered off limits for too many, community had to be nurtured in private spaces.
June 27, 2017
USC Poised to Displace Black-Owned Bike Repair Business…For the Second Time
The relationships Flournoy has with the people he has long served are the kinds of relationships that make communities feel like communities. And those relationships are some of the first casualties as folks begin to lose their footholds in the neighborhoods they have built their lives around.
May 1, 2017
South Central Youth Assess Stasis and Change 25 years after the 1992 Unrest
J.C. and Miguel are hoping that before-and-after images of several sites that they've identified will tell us something about stasis and change in the 25 years since the acquittal of four white officers in the videotaped beating of Rodney King sent people roiling into the streets back on April 29, 1992.
April 6, 2017
Election Reflections: “Law-and-Order,” the Resilience of White Supremacy, and You
"Where do things stand now?" I asked Adonia Lugo as we organized potential discussion themes ahead of this Sunday's Untokening event.
November 9, 2016