Yawu Miller reflects on his Banner career
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on April 26, 2023
Yawu Miller, far right, at a 2014 City Council debate with At-large Councilors Michael
Flaherty, Ayanna Pressley and Michelle Wu, and Dorchester Reporter Managing
Editor Gintautas Dumcius (standing, rear). COURTESY PHOTO
In 1998, I went undercover as a motorist, driving with a friend through Brookline at 1 a.m. to determine how long it would take for police in the town to pull over a Black motorist. We lasted 20 minutes before three cruisers boxed us in on Beacon Street. An officer asked us whether we were lost and noted that I was from . . .
