Wednesday’s Headlines: A Truth-Telling Commission Edition
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Mayor de Blasio creates a commission to address the city's racist past. We're all for it. Plus all the other news.
Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Racism
This Year’s List of the Most Dangerous Cities for Walkers Is Unacceptably Familiar
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Every single state in America but one has gotten more dangerous for walkers in the last two years — and the only one that didn't only managed to maintain its abysmal rate of walking fatalities, rather than reducing it.
Monday’s Headlines: It’s Snow Day Off For Us Edition
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Big storm coming. Curl up with today's headlines — special COVID scandal edition.
BOMBSHELL: Council Seeks to Take Crash Investigation from NYPD to Increase Road Safety
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The City Council is moving aggressively to rein in the NYPD.
US DOT Secretary Elaine Chao Resigns
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The federal Secretary of Transportation Elaine Chao has announced her resignation following a violent riot at the nation's capitol by predominantly white Trump supporters that went largely unchecked by law enforcement for hours, reminding many advocates of her department's consistent complicity in perpetuating police brutality and white supremacy in America.
Nominee Buttigieg Talks of ‘Righting the Wrong’ of Racist Freeways
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“It’s disproportionately Black and brown neighborhoods that were divided by highway projects because they didn’t have the political capital to resist,” Buttigieg said on Sunday. "We have a chance to get that right.”