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Rather than adding more guns to the system, a better way to prevent crime without increasing the potential for minor infractions to escalate into bloodshed is to follow the Bay Area’s lead by deploying unarmed transit ambassadors.

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A leading advocacy group is calling for the removal of 15 urban highways built on land from which millions of Black, Latinx and indigenous residents were forcibly displaced — land that includes the site of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre, which displaced thousands of Black Oklahomans just decades before a highway destroyed the community all over again.

This article first appeared in Here/Say Media. It is reprinted with permission. hen George Floyd was murdered a year ago, Bay Area community leaders, artists and activists came together at the African American Art & Culture Complex (AAACC) to paint the words “Black Lives Matter” on Fulton Street across three blocks between Webster and Octavia. On […]

 A Senate proposal to shovel hundreds of billions of dollars into new freeways is so flawed that it will wipe out the Biden administration’s goal of halving carbon emissions by 2030 while feeding Americans’ dependence on cars, advocates and even some lawmakers say.