Perhaps Dr. James P. Brawley’s family should no longer be ashamed of the street bearing his name.
In 2015, I sat on the porch of a retired bus driver who lived on Brawley Drive, named for a former Clark College president, and watched a sad, dangerous and pathetic parade of drug dealers, copper thieves and homeless people.
“I live here, but I’m not a part of it,” Howard Joiner said that day, of the English Avenue neighborhood where he grew up. “I like to go other places for a change of scenery sometimes. I call it civilization. We wish they’d come through and revitalize this area and give us an offer…