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Sahra Sulaiman

@sahrasulaiman
Sahra is Communities Editor for Streetsblog L.A., covering the intersection of mobility with race, class, history, representation, policing, housing, health, culture, community, and access to the public space in Boyle Heights and South Los Angeles.

Recent Posts

Slimm, 25, Los Ryderz member, on his bike in Ted Watkins Park in Watts. Sahra Sulaiman/Streetsblog L.A.
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“I Can’t Go Everywhere that I Thought I Could Go”

By Sahra Sulaiman | May 2, 2018 | No Comments
When Black and Brown cyclists need safety from more than traffic
The South Central bike shop where cops pulled up and ordered Anthony to get up against the wall. Sahra Sulaiman/Streetsblog L.A.
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Webinar on Policing and Mobility Underscores Struggle of Urban Planning to Center Justice

By Sahra Sulaiman | Feb 13, 2018 | No Comments
There is no way forward without a genuine reckoning with the costs that structures empowered to hold blackness at bay continue to exact from people of color.
Redlining had its deepest impacts in areas of South L.A., Central L.A., and the Eastside. The book, The Color of Law, by Richard Rothstein, details how redlining was just one of many ways in which policy was used to enforce segregation. Source: HOLC
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America Walks “Walking Toward Justice” Webinar: The Color of Law & Residential Segregation

By Sahra Sulaiman | Oct 2, 2017 | No Comments
A conversation about how to have uncomfortable conversations, moderated by Charles T. Brown and featuring Tamika Butler, Sahra Sulaiman, Sonia Jimenez, and author Richard Rothstein.
Tamika Butler, Executive Director of the LACBC, in a photo she shared of herself during her powerful NACTO talk last fall.
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Tamika Butler to Step Down as Head of LACBC; Leaves Behind Strong Legacy of Inclusion in Transportation

By Sahra Sulaiman | Jun 19, 2017 | No Comments
Perhaps the most powerful thing Butler did during her tenure was to consistently give of herself to create space for others on the margins in a field where there is currently precious little.
South Central's America is black, brown, family, faith, community, resistance, and resilience. Sahra Sulaiman/Streetsblog L.A.
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The Women’s March, the “It’s Not Your Time” Doctrine, Urban Planning, and You

By Sahra Sulaiman | Jan 28, 2017 | No Comments
The divide between the communities I write about and the people who seek to plan or advocate on their behalf has never felt deeper.
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