The Birmingham City Council will meet next Tuesday to consider renaming a portion of Sixteenth Street North to Black Lives Matter Boulevard. The resolution is seeking to rename Sixteenth Street North from First Avenue North to Sixth Avenue North as a way to honor the BLM movement and join that with Birmingham’s history of civil rights activism. The street was the epicenter of the Civil Rights Movement and the site of one of the most egregious racially-motivated hate crimes in history – the church bombing that killed four little girls and sent shockwaves around the world.
