Dallas City Council member Adam Bazaldua wants to renamee R.L. Thornton Freeway. / Importance of Street names discussed. Dallas Observer article.

The article is online here: 

https://www.dallasobserver.com/news/dallas-council-member-wants-to-rename-rl-thornton-freeway-after-juanita-j-craft-11931759

The issues about renaming streets is mentioned and I am quoted a fair amount. 

I had shared with Jacob Vaughn my papers on street names such as the fights over street names, the review of the municipal code on street names, my critique of it, my paper on the metaphysical landscape, etc. 

You can read these papers and papers on why renaming streets is important at these links. 

http://templeofdemocracy.com/dallas-streets.html

This is history over the renaming streets in Dallas. 

http://templeofdemocracy.com/struggle-over-dallas-street-names.html

This link is to the papers on the Metaphysical landscape and stigmatized property and Landscape reparations

http://templeofdemocracy.com/landscape-reparations.html