Below is a “One Minute, One Slide” presentation shared by a member of the WalkBoston staff. Text provided is as prepared for this year’s annual event on September 23, 2020 on Zoom. Wendy Landman Aging in your own community is what almost everybody says they want to do. Massachusetts is working to live up to …
Below is a “One Minute, One Slide” presentation shared by a member of the WalkBoston staff. Text provided is as prepared for this year’s annual event on September 23, 2020 on Zoom. Brendan Kearney I’m Brendan Kearney, WalkBoston’s deputy director. March 18th, we launched a weekly storytelling email effort that we called “Keep Walking” It …
Testimony as prepared for joint meeting of the MBTA Fiscal and Management Control Board and the MassDOT Board, September 21, 2020. During the COVID-19 pandemic, public comment to the Boards is via short phone messages that are played to the Board members at the beginning of each meeting. The I-90 Allston Project was on the agenda for the …
Angie Schmitt’s new book, Right of Way: Race, Class, and the Silent Epidemic of Pedestrian Deaths in America, is now available from Island Press. Angie was the longtime national editor at Streetsblog and her writing has appeared in the New York Times, The Atlantic, Bicycling, GOOD, and Landscape Architecture Magazine. Right of Way documents the …
In 2020, many White Americans are awakening to the enduring reality of structural, anti-Black racism in the United States. Some are seeking to become “allies”—a call for White people to display racial solidarity—by educating themselves and engaging in the fight for racial justice. Others are unsure of where or even how to begin. One mistake …