Keith Benjamin
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Baltimore: The Consequences of Planning That Isolates Neighborhoods
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Cross-posted from the Safe Routes to School National Partnership If you travel up North Mount Street between Laurens Street and Presbury Street you find the Gilmore Homes, now most infamously known as the place where Freddie Gray’s life began to slip away. I walked up North Mount, not shocked by what I saw, but filled with […]
Police Profiling Is a Safe Streets Issue
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Cross-posted from the Safe Routes to School National Partnership “Are they going to kill me?” That’s the question a young black boy asked me one afternoon when I accidentally bumped into him and his grandmother on West Florissant Avenue, in Ferguson, after Michael Brown’s death. He was pointing at two officers watching peaceful protestors. I […]