Rodeo Road, a 3.5-mile street that runs through the heart of L.A'.s Baldwin Hills/Crenshaw neighborhood — an iconic black community — will become Obama Boulevard on Saturday.
on deeds to prevent people of color from buying homes, kept the area off-limits to non-whites.
To Wesson, the first black president of the Los Angeles City Council, the street marks the heart and soul of the black community.It’s near where he stood in February 2007, outside the parking lot of Rancho Cienega Park, scanning the intersection of Rodeo Road and Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard for a sleek limousine. Wesson was poised to welcome then-Sen. Obama for a presidential campaign event just days after the senator had formally announced his first run for the White House.
Ayuko Babu, founder of Pan African Film Festival, which takes place annually in the neighborhood, hopes that children will reflect on the legacies of Obama and King whenever they pass by the intersection. To Michael Lawson, chief executive and president of the Los Angeles Urban League, the street signs will be an example to generations of children that communities are stronger together and will encourage them to think about black leaders and their impact beyond Black History Month.
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