Sahra Sulaiman
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
LAPD Announces Arrests in Hit-and-Runs that Killed Frederick Frazier and Injured Quatrell Stallings
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"There is no human language to describe the pain."
Long-Awaited Watts Skate and BMX Park Takes Significant Step Forward
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At the Watts Gang Task Force meeting Monday morning in Watts, Councilmember Joe Buscaino announced that he had finally secured the necessary $925,000 in funds and a location for a combination skate and BMX bike park that the community has been waiting for for at least a decade. [If you can’t see the video, click here.] […]
When an Accidental Planner Brings Intentionality to Her Work: A Conversation with Monique López of Pueblo Planning
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“Once you change the city planning process," says Monique López, founder of the participatory planning and design firm Pueblo Planning, "you're going to change the city in a manner that's more equitable, that's more sustainable, that's more human, and that's more just."
Los Ryderz Celebrate Six Years of Community-Building in Watts
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It's tough love, to be sure. But the love couldn't be more genuine, and the members of the club have always known it.
“I Can’t Go Everywhere I Thought I Could Go”: When Black and Brown Cyclists Need Safety From More Than Traffic
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"I knew where I was," muses Slimm, the 25-year-old road captain from the Los Ryderz Bike Club regarding his fateful decision to roll past 65th on Broadway - the heart of East Coast Crips territory, "but I was just riding by..."
“The Car Culture That We Have Is Not Promoting Life”: Riders Remember Frederick “Woon” Frazier
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As Young Riders Mourn, a Movement Begins to Coalesce
22-year-old Killed in Hit-and-Run at Manchester/Normandie; Driver Plows Through Mourners Corking Intersection to Protest Death
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The images were a sobering reminder of how terrifyingly fragile the human body is when confronted by a multi-ton vehicle traveling at just about any speed.
Rules Committee Says No to Sacramento’s Approach to Housing Crisis
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While curbing the power of the I-got-mine-so-go-away-peasant crowd to veto growth is indeed a most urgent imperative, the fact that the zoning changes are tied to transit lines means that, here in Los Angeles, it is disproportionately lower-income communities of color that will be affected by the bill.
Public Enthusiasm for Dragging Rude Youth From Trains Highlights Gap in Metro’s Equity Platform
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People had been so caught up in detailing the crimes against humanity her “poopy feet” had wrought that there was very little space for reflection on the larger implications of what it was that people were cheering.
Boyle Heights Tenants, Mariachis Celebrate Victory over Exorbitant Rent Hikes
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A nine-month rent strike comes to a close when tenants successfully negotiate new terms with owner B.J. Turner
Webinar on Policing and Mobility Underscores Struggle of Urban Planning to Center Justice
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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.
Teen Hauled Off Metro Train, Cuffed for Putting Her Feet Up
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As he films the scene unfolding in front of him at the Westlake/MacArthur Park station, Metro passenger Brock Bryan calmly pleads with an LAPD officer to stop manhandling a young woman he dragged off the train for putting her foot up on the seat.