Jul. 12th, 2016

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Walking While Black by Garnette Cadogan, who first roamed the streets of his native Kingston, Jamaica, and later walked the much less crime-ridden, but (for a black man) more dangerous streets of New Orleans and New York City.

via BikePortland. They're definitely upping their game on covering race issues.

I checked the writers for The Red Door's production of "Hands Up", because one of the monologues included a similar description of police assault in NYC, but sadly it was another Black man's experience. Because it happens all the time.

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