After going through a gnarly breakup and quitting drugs, Folick’s father sadly passed away suddenly.
But in the time since, Folick was dealt some pretty big blows. There is no excuse for them failing to do so.It’s been five years since Miya Folick arrived on the indie rock scene with her acclaimed debut album Premonitions. They could make changes with temporary improvements at a very low-cost, including paint and delineators for tens of thousands of dollars right now to make that intersection safer. According to Milwaukee Police data, it ranked third in total crashes across the city. The intersection where Hicks’ crash happened is well-known as one of the most dangerous in the city. As opposed to people trying to pass through their community.” “To demand a redesign of the roadway to make it safer, particularly for people traveling within the roadway. “These are folks that often have less time to attempt to exercise political power,” Osborne said. Additionally, Osborne says these systemic practices equate to lost time that could be used to advocate for change on the roadways. By not having ready access to a vehicle, people will need to use a different form of transportation, like walking or biking, which put them at greater risk. The National Equity Atlas shows 18 percent of African American households nationwide do not have access to a vehicle which is the highest of any racial or ethnic group. Osborne points to other ripple effects of these systemic practices African Americans are less likely to have access to a vehicle. “Not because they choose to but because we have not provided enough affordability elsewhere in more choice neighborhoods. “When that property becomes lower value, people with less money and less opportunity are likely to be pushed there,” Osborne said. “When you build high-speed roadways in an area, that does not become a place where people with options desperately want to raise their children.”īecause of systemic racism, Osborne says, both through lower economic status and redlining, people of color were forced to live in these less desirable areas. “We’ve built a lot of highways and high-speed roadways through Black and brown communities,” Osborne said. We feel comfortable moving faster.”īy and large, those types of roadways, Osborne says, go through minority neighborhoods. “If a road is wide with wide lanes, straight ahead and few places where you’re expected to stop, that feels like an expressway.
“Roadway design tells us, on an ongoing basis, how we should behave,” Osborne said. Osborne points to road design as a reason we see these types of statistics. In total, people of color represent two-thirds of all crash deaths in Milwaukee County since 2017. If you are a Native American, you are three times as likely.” If you are walking and you are Black, you are twice as likely to be struck and killed than a white person. “This is something we see across the country. “What’s tragic is, that’s not unusual,” Beth Osborne, VP of Transportation and Thriving Communities for Smart Growth America said. Since 2017, 53.7 percent of crash deaths in Milwaukee County are African American victims, despite making up 27.6 percent of the entire county’s population. They also represent a startling disparity in crash statistics. In 2017, Shakela and Aaliyah were two of 94 people killed in a motor vehicle crash. I used to be kind of depressed like that and I was always with her. “I was with Shakela like every day,” Hicks said. Along Tionna’s collarbone is a daily reminder a tattoo of Aaliyah’s name with a crown on top. In the five years since the crash, Shakela and Aaliyah are always on her mind. Gaston was sentenced to 30 years in prison in 2018. Rhodes and her daughter died at the scene but Hicks survived. Reggie Gaston was driving west on Capitol Drive and blew a red light, crashing into Rhodes' vehicle. “I remember looking back at Aaliyah and I had said I love you and that’s all I remember.” “We were right here at the red light,” Hicks said. TMJ4 News Tionna Hicks says she was so close with her cousin's daughter, Aaliyah, it felt like she was her own daughter.
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