About nine months after a panel recommended the immediate renaming of Confederate Avenue in Atlanta, city officials are planning a public hearing.
A City Council committee voted to hold the hearing and a “listening session” in September, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported.
That’s likely to continue contentious debate over the Civil War-themed name along Confederate and East Confederate avenues in southeast Atlanta and across the city.
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