Confederate Ave. renamed amid racial reckoning

RICHMOND, VA. » The city council in Richmond, Virginia, has renamed a stretch of four residential blocks that had been known as Confederate Avenue.

The Richmond Times-Dispatch reportedMonday that the street’s name is now Laburnum Park Boulevard. The renaming is part of amuch larger and ongoing reckoning over the city’s historical ties to slavery and racial discrimination. The capital city took down nearly all of its Confederate monuments this summer in the wake of protests against racial injustice.

Surveys conducted by the community over the summer found 75% of the street’s 60 households supported the change, the newspaper reported.