Back in December, the East Baton Rouge Metro Council approved a report that detailed the racist origins of some of the city’s street and neighborhood names and advocated for replacing them with ones that better reflect the city’s values.
LSU professors and members of the city’s advisory committee on street renaming, Stephen Andes and Sydney Epps, tell us where this process is at now.
But Baton Rouge isn’t the only city considering renaming some troublesome landmarks. In fact, the city of New Orleans had a head start in renaming some streets that memorialize Confederate figures.
Chair of the New Orleans City Council Street Renaming Commission, Karl Connor, tells us more.
Today’s episode of Louisiana Considered was hosted by Adam Vos. Our producer is Alana Schreiber and our digital editor is Katelyn Umholtz. Our engineers are Garrett Pittman, Aubrey Procell, and Thomas Walsh.
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