New Orleans urged to switch street name from Confederate to music legend
by Associated Press in New Orleans from US news | The Guardian on (#5SP25)
A member of the city council is pushing for Robert E Lee Boulevard to be renamed after Allen Toussaint
A member of New Orleans city council is pushing to change a street currently named after the Confederate general Robert E Lee and replace it with one the city's most famous musicians, Allen Toussaint, who died in 2015.
Councilmember Jared C Brossett introduced an ordinance to rename the street that goes through the northern part of the city near Lake Pontchartrain.
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