See this route on Ridespot. See free self-guided bike tours here. Nine minutes and twenty nine seconds. That’s how long a police officer named Derek Chauvin kneeled on a man’s neck until the man, George […]
Tag: Black Lives Matter
Louder, for the People in the Back
This is the exact spot where I was yesterday when the news was announced that the killing of an innocent black woman, in the privacy of her home, was not a crime. And so now, […]
“Have a Blessed Day”
“Have a blessed day,” they say here in the south at some point every day in the course of your travels (back when we had travels). It usually comes from someone who is perhaps down […]
Hope for the flowers (and all of us)
“Just when the caterpillar thought the world was over, it became a butterfly.” Seeing this beauty in my garden yesterday gave me hope and renewed faith in humanity. The Black Lives Matter movement is changing […]
Right here in suburbia
There were about 30 people — young, old, overwhelmingly White but also Black and Brown. They stood in front of a suburban city hall, on a road unsafe for bike riders (although a family of […]
I am not silent
I am white. I am not silent. I write; I bear witness as a street photographer; and I vote with my ballot, fork, and pedals for a more just world. Two highly-publicized crimes against African […]
Voices that need to be heard
A lot has happened since 2015 when I wrote Black Lives at a Crossroad, and a White Woman’s Attempts to Understand. I’ve been doing the hard work to learn what I’d never been taught. As […]
