Black History Month Syllabus

Celebrating Black History Month by highlighting Black Urbanism and Black Futurisms in place making.
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Last year I organized this syllabus of prominent voices in Black urbanism in history and today. Over the years I have reorganized it with the growth and evolution of prominent Black voices in the mobility justice movement. It's loaded with book recommendations, articles, and urbanists to follow.
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There is a Black urbanism, and there are Black urbanists.
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Just like any widespread structural and cultural racism, the urbanist community has largely ignored, gaslit, and silenced Black voices on issues that many Black urbanists, activists, and scholars have advocated over the life of this country. All you have to look to recently are the debates about critical race theory in schools and The Build Better Act with reparations as the center of the discussion of equity.
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It is worth mentioning, that urbanist orgs and media are also responsible for silencing Black urbanists on the topics of cities. “It's time we stop reading white urbanists, having only white panelists and thought leaders as leading voices on cities, and admit that planning and urbanism is white supremacy in practice” - @trapteas
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We must keep amplifying Black voices to discuss the potentials and perils of cities. We must center Black futures in the work we push forward.
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Click on link to review the syllabus: Black History Month Syllabus