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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 Central Los Angeles.

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Controversial New L.A. Ordinance Cracks Down on Bicycle "Chop Shops"

By Sahra Sulaiman | Jun 15, 2022 | No Comments
In a brief and anticlimactic session yesterday, City Council tentatively* approved a controversial ordinance cracking down on so-called “bicycle chop shops,” which advocates say targets unhoused people.
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LASD Shoots Autistic Man After Just 83 Seconds

By Sahra Sulaiman | May 8, 2021 | No Comments
Eighty-three seconds. That’s how much time passed between the moment deputies from the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department (LASD) first stood at the door of the Cudahy home of Isaias Cervantes, a 25-year-old autistic man who is hard of hearing and suffering from depression and anxiety, and the firing of the shot that may have […]
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Losing Loved Ones to Police Violence Was Just the Beginning

By Sahra Sulaiman | Apr 13, 2021 | No Comments
"I don't have another life to give. I don't have any more breaths to take. I don't have any more hashtags. I don't have any more energy to be marching with my fist up in the air [only] to come back to the same thing," declared Khadijah Shabazz. "Right now, it needs to be all broken down, torn down, and started all over again."
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What Really Happened to Dijon Kizzee

By Sahra Sulaiman | Sep 18, 2020 | No Comments
The 2nd deputy doesn't draw his gun until nearly 2 seconds after Kizzee's gun has skittered along the ground to its final resting place
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Unhoused Man Beaten by LAPD

By Sahra Sulaiman | Jun 26, 2020 | No Comments
Making the case for why, if L.A. is serious about reimagining public safety, it must embrace the conversation around defunding the police
Miguel R. has been homeless for just over three weeks in the University Park area. Sahra Sulaiman/StreetsblogLA
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What It's Like to Live on the Street During COVID-19

By Sahra Sulaiman | Apr 28, 2020 | No Comments
A true eviction moratorium might have kept Miguel housed and stable; now he fears for his mental health and his ability to get back on his feet
Amaris Mendez gives a tearful message about her attack on Instagram.
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Street Vendor Who Can't Afford to Self-Quarantine Is Attacked

By Sahra Sulaiman | Mar 31, 2020 | No Comments
Vendors across the city wonder how they will feed their families; a Street Vendor Emergency Fund aims to help.
Cortez Wright, at right, first joined the guys he looked up to from BKoB in the King Day Parade when he was 13. Now 17, he and friends Prince (left) and Jacob (center) are the ones inspiring the next generation of riders. Sahra Sulaiman/Streetsblog L.A.
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Community Service Comes Full Circle for Members of Black Kids on Bikes at King Day Parade

By Sahra Sulaiman | Jan 25, 2019 | No Comments
Youth BKoB inspired to join in the King Day parade years ago now serve as inspiration for the next generation
The vacant lots encompassing the 8400 and 8500 blocks on Vermont have held the community hostage to blight for over 26 years. The 8300 block (from which this photo was taken) had also remained vacant for a number of years and was originally going to be incorporated into the Vermont Entertainment Village project. In the mid-2000s, Eli Sasson sold off his 8300 block parcels (helping to doom the mall project) and the County services building rose on it instead in 2007. Source: County Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas
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Transit Public School Set For Blighted L.A. Lots

By Sahra Sulaiman | Oct 22, 2018 | No Comments
For black stakeholders eager to shed the despised "Death Alley" label and address the damage rooted in segregationist policies, the stakes feel especially high
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”: When Black and Brown Cyclists Need Safety from More than Traffic

By Sahra Sulaiman | May 2, 2018 | No Comments
“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…” Keeping track of whose territory you are in is key to survival for many […]
Untokening Co-founder Naomi Doerner listens to a participant during the Policy/Advocacy/Power workshop at the Untokening California convening November 4. Sahra Sulaiman/Streetsblog L.A.
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Mobility Justice Advocates Gather in Leimert Park for Untokening California

By Sahra Sulaiman | Nov 10, 2017 | No Comments
She had had enough of hearing her community spoken about in offensive ways by well- (and not-so-well-) meaning planners and advocates, enough of giving 110 percent of herself only to realize a fraction of what she put forward was being seen as having value, enough of how disinterested those with power over what happened in marginalized communities remained in the larger picture, and enough of being tokenized.
Waiting for the bus in South Central. Image: Sahra Sulaiman/Streetsblog L.A.
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Twitter Chat on #Untokening of Mobility Advocacy Explores Costs of Tokenization

By Sahra Sulaiman | Oct 4, 2017 | No Comments
"But whatever you do," the head of the history department told me, "do not use words like 'multicultural.' Parents will call to ask what on earth we're teaching their kids."
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