The Fight for Freedom of Mobility in Black America — Next City
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The Fight for Freedom of Mobility in Black America

August 21, 2025 · 43 min

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Mobility is a freedom, and for Black Americans, that freedom has never been guaranteed.

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In this episode

  • Why the transportation system treats Black Americans differently
  • The real costs of unequal access to mobility
  • What arrested mobility means for daily life and opportunity
  • How policy and design choices created these disparities

About this episode

Charles T. Brown, author of "Arrested Mobility," discusses why mobility is not afforded in the same way to everyone – and the dire cost of this inequity.
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