Following up on my post “Saving Alcaniz Street: Line in the sand”, our friends at The Lunch Counter have uploaded video of Leroy Boyd’s comments on the issue from this past Monday’s Committee of the Whole meeting:
If anyone wasn’t sure of the seriousness of those who wish to rename the remaining portion of Alcaniz Street in honour of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., let me share with you the words of Leroy Boyd, president of Movement for Change, as he delivered them to Council on Monday:
We have signs we’ve made up [...]
At today’s Committee of the Whole meeting, Council members voted unanimously to hold a public hearing on the issue of renaming the remaining portion of Alcaniz Street in honour of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
The date for the public hearing has not yet been set, but I believe public hearings have to be set at [...]
Following up on my earlier post on the issue:
I know this is a divisive issue, and I know that people with whom I agree with on a host of other issues may not agree with me on this issue. I hope, though, that we all can discuss the issue like adults in a democratic society.
If [...]
At Monday’s meeting of the Pensacola City Council’s Committee of the Whole, the issue of renaming the remaining portion of Alcaniz Street to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive will be raised.
For those who may not know, what is now Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive was also once named Alcaniz Street, but was renamed [...]
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