Rider down (but not out): Katie Bennett

Last week on GoGA, (3/4), Katie Bennett suffered a bike injury that's diagnosis has yet to be determined, but nevertheless she's down for a while. This accident lead us to reconsider out "new" starting time - while traffic was not the sole cause, it was a contributor to this unfortunate event. So once, again, we are changing our starting time to meeting at 8:00pm, and leaving at 8:30pm SHARP.

Thank you for bearing with us, and we hope to see you out there.

The Big Winner: Roadblock

Congratulations to Roadblock (of Wolfpack)! He is the big winner of the GoGA girls at (LACBC's) Big Bike Love Valentine's Day event.

Roadblock will be the first guy ever to roll with the GoGA girls on April 1st. More info to come soon. It will be a good one. That's a GoGA promise.

Tuesday, March 4th: Venice Canal Ride

It's a longer ride. You must feel comfortable riding at least 40 miles. We do not want to stay out all night, so bring those fast tiger legs!

The route

hey kids- in case anyone is interested in the Acura LA Bike Tour on March 2nd

February 25th: Carter G. Woodson and the Origins of Multiculturalism

From the Founders of Black History Month.

"From its inception, America has been a landscape peopled by diverse ethnic and racial groups, and today virtually all peoples are represented. If America has always been racially and ethnically diverse, the nation's self-image has not always recognized its multicultural history. Until the last decades of the twentieth century, America has seen itself largely as the flowering of Anglo-Saxon culture and prided itself on allowing immigrants to adopt the American way.

During the early years of the twentieth century, a small number of intellectuals began to question whether America was simply a transplant of English civilization. W. E. B. Du Bois, Theodore Herzel, and Randolph Bourne believed that modern America should embrace the cultural differences that newcomers brought with them to America. Democracy, they believed, required tolerance of difference and could sustain those differences in harmony.

Among those intellectuals of the Progressive era, Carter G. Woodson did most to forge an intellectual movement to educate Americans about cultural diversity and democracy. For the sake of African Americans and all Americans, Woodson heralded the contributions of African Americans and the black tradition. In 1915, he established the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History and by the time of his death in 1950, he had laid the foundation for a rethinking of American identity.

The multiculturalism of our times is built on the intellectual and institutional labors of Woodson and the association he established. He should be known not simply as the Father of Black History, but as pioneer of multiculturalism as well."

Let's ride. Don't forget the new meeting time 7:30

The route