Debbie Elliott
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Nicole Dawsey is executive director of the Addiction Prevention Coalition in Birmingham.
Dawsey says the administration's reversal shows democracy can work, but she says the future is uncertain.
Debbie Elliott, NPR News, Montgomery, Alabama.
Claudette Colvin was just 15 years old in March of 1955 when a white bus driver ordered the black teenager to offer her seat to a white woman.
She told NPR in a 2009 interview that she'd paid her bus fare and had a right to her seat.
She was taken off in handcuffs and jailed.
Nine months later, Rosa Parks' arrest sparked the Montgomery bus boycott.
Colvin remained active, becoming a key plaintiff in the landmark federal lawsuit that dismantled segregated public transportation.
The New Year's terror attack raised questions about pedestrian safety in New Orleans' popular French Quarter.
At the time, the city was in the process of replacing malfunctioning bollards, steel columns intended to block vehicles from entering Bourbon Street.
A year later, the street remains protected by a mix of removable barriers, including bollards, barricades and police vehicles blocking
what one police official calls a temporary solution to a permanent problem.
Now, New Orleans police are asking the city council to approve a $1.5 million plan to install permanent metal swing gates along Bourbon Street.
I'm Tanya Mosley, co-host of Fresh Air. At a time of sound bites and short attention spans, our show is all about the deep dive. We do long-form interviews with people behind the best in film, books, TV, music, and journalism. Here our guests open up about their process and their lives in ways you've never heard before. Listen to the Fresh Air podcast from NPR and WHYY.
I'm Tanya Mosley, co-host of Fresh Air. At a time of sound bites and short attention spans, our show is all about the deep dive. We do long-form interviews with people behind the best in film, books, TV, music, and journalism. Here our guests open up about their process and their lives in ways you've never heard before. Listen to the Fresh Air podcast from NPR and WHYY.
I'm Tanya Mosley, co-host of Fresh Air. At a time of sound bites and short attention spans, our show is all about the deep dive. We do long-form interviews with people behind the best in film, books, TV, music, and journalism. Here our guests open up about their process and their lives in ways you've never heard before. Listen to the Fresh Air podcast from NPR and WHYY.