Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Tamika Butler

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Top Safety Org Recommends Reform in Traffic Policing

By Kea Wilson | Sep 25, 2020 | No Comments

An influential transportation safety organization recommended ways to cut racism from traffic policing — but stopped short of advocating to get police out of traffic enforcement altogether.

How to Address Anti-Black Racism in Urban Planning

By Courtney Cobbs | Jun 14, 2020 | No Comments

The Canadian Urban Institute recently held an online panel centered around the question of “How do we respond to anti-Black racism in urbanist practices and conversations?”

What Legacy Will You Leave for Racial Justice?

By Courtney Cobbs | Jun 5, 2020 | No Comments

I hope that you make choices today that you will be proud to stand by later in the quest for a more just society.

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PoC Leaders Demand Anti-Racism from Transportation Community

By Streetsblog | Jun 3, 2020 | No Comments

BIPOC leaders have long urged antiracist action from their white counterparts — but those calls have gained particular urgency in the wake of the recent murders of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor. Here are helpful resources from three top leaders.

LA County Bike Coalition’s Tamika Butler on Planning While Black

By Angie Schmitt | Sep 30, 2016 | No Comments

Too often, says Tamika Butler, the people responsible for planning cities don’t look like the people who live in cities. In her keynote address from this week’s NACTO Designing Cities conference, she considers some of the ramifications. Butler is executive director of the Los Angeles County Bicycle Coalition and a national leader in the field of active transportation and racial justice. Her talk begins […]