Arrested Mobility

About Arrested Mobility

Why are Black Americans and other people of color disproportionately victims of overly aggressive police enforcement and brutality while walking, running, riding bicycles, taking public transit, or while driving? This podcast explores the ways in which people of color have had their mobility arrested. Hosted by Charles T. Brown, the founder and CEO of Equitable Cities LLC—an urban planning, policy, and research firm working at the intersection of transportation, health, and equity. Charles will take you to the streets of Philly, the sidewalks of Seattle, the neighborhoods of Kansas City, and elsewhere around the U.S. In each place, he'll ask: What can we do to change the outcomes when people of color step out their door to exist in the world?

Publisher

Charles T. Brown

Category

science · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

8 Feb 2022

Latest episode

29 Jun 2026

Latest episodes

4 of 36 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   29 Jun 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Looking Forward and Back on the Arrested Mobility Movement

   Host Dr. Destiny Watford and guests reflect on the Arrested Mobility movement's impact on Black communities and explore its future direction.

2. 

   28 Apr 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Calming Traffic: Virginia Walkability Action Institute

   When we talk about racial discrimination in American cities, we usually focus on housing, schools, or policing. We talk less about streets and sidewalks. But in many communities of color, decades of disinvestment have resulted in a built environment where people are unable to move through public space in a safe and healthy way. Those communities tend to look a lot like Lansdowne, a predominantly Black, low-income neighborhood in Roanoke, Virginia. It's a place where wide, fast roads cut through a residential area and pedestrians have spent years navigating streets that weren't built with them in mind. This episode features Dr. Melicent Miller from the Virginia Department of Health and Virginia Walkability Action Institute, to discuss how the VWAI, in partnership with Horizon 54, was able to help Lansdowne create a traffic calming project guided by community-driven design. Find Virginia Walkability Action Institute at https://virginiapaths.org/virginia-walkability-action-institute/

3. 

   30 Mar 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Community Violence Intervention: Chicago CRED

   For generations, the dominant public response to violence was punishment and enforcement. But another approach has continued to grow alongside that model: Community Violence Intervention. CVI suggests that the people best positioned to interrupt gun violence are often those with lived experience, deep relationships, and hard-earned credibility in the communities most affected. Sometimes, they're people who were previously in a gang, or been in prison, or lost their family to a shooting. Those folks have more credibility with their community, and more influence to help young men facing elevated risk because of concentrated disinvestment, exclusion, trauma, and limited opportunity. Our guest today is Cedric Hawkins, Safety Manager with the CVI organization, Chicago CRED. Find Chicago CRED at https://www.chicagocred.org/

Inside a recent episode

Looking Forward and Back on the Arrested Mobility Movement

Published 29 Jun 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] In season two, we went deeper into the infrastructure itself, the physical systems that make it harder to move through certain neighborhoods than others. We started with a story that I think captures this more viscerally than almost anything else we've ever covered. In Hammond, Indiana, children in the majority black and Latino neighborhood of Hessville were crawling under freight trains to get to school. Not because they wanted to, but because the trains stopped between their homes and their school, sometimes for hours, with no federal law requiring them to move. I spoke with Topher Sanders, an investigative journalist with ProPublica, who broke this story, and with Akisha Henderson, a mother of three who lives right in Hessville. […]

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