One of my professors here at Florida Atlantic University recently pointed out that there is an open source photo journalism site that is dedicated to publishing photos and opinions about the MLK Blvds of America. The photos are all aggregated from the Flickr photo pool entitled "MLK Blvd."
If you have a good photo, poem, or other significant contribution, I would invite you to get involved there. Unlike myself, that site has not adopted a advocacy position like I have, but if you review the photos on the Wordpress site you can see all of the elements of marginalization and oppression that I have pointed out here in South Florida.
For example, just head out to the site and keep the following four topics in mind as you review some of the photos:
NIMBY (Just look at the number of freeway overpasses featured in these photos.)
Urban Blight (Stores with no windows, or bars on the windows.)
Homelessness (Blankets stored under the overpasses.)
Re-naming Resistance (Several posts talked about the resilient former names of these streets.)
My personal favorite was the post by Morgan Jones from Oakland, California where the caption noted that eight freeway overpasses overshadow MLK Way between 35th Street and 36th Street.
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