Asheville might keep slaveowner names on streets with businesses; city waiting on public input
ASHEVILLE - Businesses may not be affected by a move to change city street names linked to slaveholders, a key city official said.
Facing questions about costs that businesses would incur after a street renaming proposal stemming from summer Black Lives Matter protests, city Development Services Director Ben Woody told the Council of Independent Business Owners Jan. 15 to not necessarily assume that that s going to be an issue. That could be because only new streets are affected or renaming is limited to certain areas, Woody said.
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Seven Black women in Asheville are offering up their personal stories in honor of Kwanzaa, the weeklong celebration of African-American heritage.
The online event called Black Starseed was organized by adé PROJECT, a collective of local artists of color. adé PROJECT founder Cortina Jenelle Caldwell says the concept was born out of a painful year. One of the greatest harms and one of the most difficult things about the state we found ourselves in 2020, and therefore this summer, is we weren’t fully seeing each other, Jenelle Caldwell said. Black Starseed became a response to that call, to make things more visible.