Recent Streetsblog CALIFORNIA posts about Equity

The organizers of The Untokening, a transportation equity conference held in Atlanta last year. We had trouble finding a photo of a diverse panel discussion of transportation issues in Chicago. Photo: Photo: Argenis Apolinario

Let’s Stop Booking Majority-White Panels on Citywide Transportation Issues

By Lynda Lopez and John Greenfield | Aug 22, 2017 | No Comments

If you can't find anyone to sit on your panels who isn’t white, you need to reevaluate what your year-round connections to communities of color look like.

Senator Jim Beall (D-Campbell), Chair of the Senate Transportation and Housing Committee. Image: Screengrab from Digital Democracy

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Legislative Update: Equity on the CTC

By Melanie Curry | Jul 21, 2017 | 6 Comments

A.B. 179 tries to ensure that the concerns of people affected by transportation projects—not just those who use them—will be represented on the California Transportation Commission. But the bill has been softened to a statement on the need for diversity.

When you have to navigate a landscape that wasn't created with you in mind. Sahra Sulaiman/Streetsblog L.A.

When a Progressive Community Fails to See Its Own Biases, Bullying and Bigotry Get a Pass

By Sahra Sulaiman | May 9, 2017 | No Comments

So I resorted to the sincere query that I’ve made to him on several occasions, namely: Help me understand why consideration of the needs of the most vulnerable among us - particularly lower-income black and brown communities - is so offensive to you?