Rob Walker: MLK Boulevard

A friend of mine and talented journalist Rob Walker has an excellent column called “Consumed” in the New York Times– if you haven’t ever checked it out you’re missing out, you can find it in the Sunday Magazine section. He has an interesting little side project he was telling me about called MLK Boulevard. Sometime in the mid ’90’s he became interested in ‘how many cities have a street named for Martin Luther King Jr., and how many of these MLK Blvds seem to have an awful lot of abandoned property, scary-looking bars, and small groceries that accept food stamps. He started a collaborative project on Flickr where people can upload their photos of MLK Blvds around the world. The pictures are powerful and quite introspective.