Officials also unveiled signage for Desert Cactus Street, formerly Robert E. Lee Street.
Critics said having a street named for the Confederate general glorifies the pro-slavery Confederacy.
For years, critics have urged the street name changes. But it wasn’t until last year’s rise of the Black Lives Matter movement and talk of racial reckoning that the issue gained momentum.
The Phoenix City Council approved both new names.
Some residents disagreed, arguing it would force them to change their addresses on personal documents and records.
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the world. Gee – and I thought we were America! That must be why he calls me a nativist nabob. I call it Tarantreason. ]
If the war with Iraq has accomplished nothing else, it has offered a bottomless bonanza for media celebrations of the New World America that the military side of the war is pounding into reality.
The New World America is what the United States will be after it is transformed by mass immigration and racial and sexual liberation into a multicultural, multiracial, unisex order managed by the global state.