🎨 Murals, Memory, and Movimiento: Why a Tucson Park Name Change Matters More Than You Think

😽 Keepin’ It Simple Summary for Younger Readers👧🏾✊🏾👦🏾

A park in Tucson 🌵 is causing arguments ⚡ because some people want to change its name 🏷️ to honor the real person who helped create it 🙌.

The park exists because in 1970 📅, a group of Chicano activists ✊🏽 led by Salomón Baldenegro protested at a fancy golf course ⛳✨ to demand their poor neighborhood 🏚️ get a park too 🌳.

But the current mayor, Regina Romero 🏛️, has spent years making secret deals 🤐💼 with big companies 🏢 and even tried to sell the golf course space ⛳➡️🎓 to a private college without telling the community 🗣️…

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