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I ride my bike, get angry at cars, eat baked goods, and make sure Gus is well fed. I hail from the best state in New England.
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"Pedestrian deaths are highest in formerly redlined areas ... Governments invest in roads for people driving through such neighborhoods, but not in safety measures—like sidewalks, crosswalks, traffic circles, and speed bumps—that protect people living in them."

A boy’s bicycling death haunts a Black neighborhood. 35 years later, there’s still no sidewalk.
A boy’s bicycling death haunts a Black neighborhood. 35 years later, there’s still no sidewalk.

Pedestrian deaths are highest in formerly redlined areas, neighborhoods where Black people lived because of discriminatory federal mortgage lending practices. The lack of sidewalks, damaged walkways a...

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This detail is heartbreaking and infuriating

Years after the accident, Melvin-Muse said, she worked up the courage to call the driver who had hit her son. When he answered, he didn’t recognize her name, or John’s, fueling her rage, she recalled.

“I wanted revenge. An eye-for-an-eye kind of thing,” she said. “And I plotted to take him out the same way my son was taken out.”

She went so far as to get a job where he worked, the Durham County tax department, only to find he had left a week before she started.
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Gravel Influencer
@gravelinfluencer.bsky.social
I ride my bike, get angry at cars, eat baked goods, and make sure Gus is well fed. I hail from the best state in New England.
1.8k followers811 following17.2k posts