Minneapolis could soon rename a 14-block stretch of road along the Mississippi River Lena Smith Boulevard, in honor of the state’s first Black woman lawyer.
Now called Edmund Boulevard, the street is named for Edmund Walton, a real estate developer who introduced racially restrictive covenants to Minnesota in the early 1900s, according to a team of researchers at the University of Minnesota.
The proposal for Lena Smith Boulevard is set to go before the Minneapolis City Council, after a city planning commission voted unanimously to recommend it Monday…