Driving While Black Before GPS: The Warnings a Map Couldn’t Give

Podcast: In The Know with Tony Reeves · Anthony Reeves

Opublikowano: 2026-10-19

A map could show my best friend how to reach me in North Carolina. But there were things about that overnight drive I wanted him to understand before he left. It was the mid-1990s. I was stationed at Camp Lejeune, and he was coming up from Tampa. When he decided to take the backroads instead of my suggested route, our conversation became about more than directions. Closed gas stations. Small towns after midnight. Sudden speed-limit changes. No cell phones to check in. And the concerns I carried as a Black man who grew up navigating...