What I learned from Black History Month
Shut up and listen. And when you’re done shutting up, shut up some more. Your analysis of their experience isn’t as good as their story of their experience. Black history …
Black Lives Matter
Mobile bike shop: Thanks to all who donated!
Since my request on Feb. 12 during Black History Month to help raise $7,000 for East Side Riders and their effort to buy a mobile bike shop for Watts, readers …
World cup winner: A conversation with Anthony Freeman
Anthony Freeman is a lifelong competitor. The minute you see him on the bike, you know he’s serious about what he’s doing. No big surprise there–he’s a national title holder …
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History lessons: A conversation with Marty Blount
Martin Blount is a founding member and president of one of Los Angeles’s largest and most influential black cycling clubs, Major Taylor Cycling Club of Los Angeles. Named after the …
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Telling it like it is: A conversation with Elijah Shabazz
Elijah has, as he will tell you, “been around.” With more than fifty local race wins and two state titles over a career that spans close to twenty-five years, if …
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Do you want to help?
John Jones III runs the East Side Riders bike club based in Watts, California. It’s a 501(c)3 non-profit corporation dedicated to improving the lives of Watts residents. Since the pandemic …
Black history: Methods to Winning, LLC
Methods to Winning, LLC, is one of the first bike racing teams in the world founded by blacks for the promotion of blacks in cycling. I called up one of …
Whites know best
A friend sent me to a link to this story about diversity in cycling. The title said it all, “US cycling powers are hoping to create change with a focus …
Demand
Velo Club LaGrange hosted a meeting on Zoom last night to discuss racism and violence against blacks in the context of Black Lives Matter. They began the day before in …
Celebrate good times (come on!)
Okay, so I’m no flag-waver. But I’ve always recognized that I was lucky to be born where and when and to whom I was born. When I was a kid …