Recent Streetsblog DENVER posts about Racial Equity

STUDY: New Bike Lanes Aren’t Associated With Displacement of BIPOC, Low-Income People

By Kea Wilson | Jun 21, 2021 | No Comments

The installation of new protected infrastructure for bicyclists is not associated with the displacement of people of color or of low-income urban residents, a new study reveals.

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Commentary: Cycling Towards Upward Mobility

By Ann Nguyen | Apr 5, 2021 | No Comments

Ann Nguyen writes, "As the fatal shootings happened in Atlanta on March 16, I was in a safe space speaking to leaders in the Colorado bicycle community about how I feel invisible but also empowered to come together and fight for the common liberation in all minority communities."

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Commentary: Walking While Black in the Mile High City

By Adrian Miller | Mar 15, 2021 | No Comments

Some of the most memorable racist incidents that Adrian Miller has experienced in Denver happened when he was Walking while Black.

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Biden Decries US DOT’s Destruction of Black Communities — But Will His Administration Make Reparations?

By Kea Wilson | Jan 28, 2021 | No Comments

President Biden won points among some antiracist transportation advocates for calling out federal highway projects for destroying Black communities – and then lost points by failing to call for the USDOT itself to make reparations to the people it has harmed.

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Talking Headways Podcast: ‘Intro to the City’

By Jeff Wood | Jan 14, 2021 | No Comments

How do Black and Hispanic kids feel when they go into a Whole Foods? Not welcome, that's for sure. And therein lies a major problem.

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How to Bike With Disabilities, Discrimination, and Difference

By Kea Wilson | Oct 29, 2020 | No Comments

When it comes to getting out and enjoying life on two wheels, some of the most intimidating barriers we must confront have less to do with hulking SUVs more to do with what types of bodies our entire culture is built to suit — and in a new online speaker series, 13 riders shared the personal stories that shape the way they ride.

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