Is America the land of the free, if you cannot freely travel? Black America has been facing this challenge since the beginning, finding space while the horrors persist.

When we wrote this episode, we didn't know the policies that would be launched into hyperdrive and the public focus in the first 7 days of United States in 2026. We needed to listen then, and we very much can listen now.

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Sources:

https://www.pbs.org/video/driving-while-black-race-space-and-mobility-in-america-achvfr/

https://books.google.com/books/about/Driving_While_Black.html?id=eYiQEAAAQBAJ

https://www.archives.gov/research/african-americans/vote

https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/voting-rights-act

https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/the-green-book-an-historic-context.htm

https://justice.tougaloo.edu/map/

https://constitutioncenter.org/blog/it-was-on-this-day-that-rosa-parks-made-history-by-riding-a-bus

https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/mss/mesn/mesn-130/mesn-130.pdf