A third name was proposed for Lee Circle, not what GNOICC has proposed. The New Orleans City Council Street Renaming Commission settled Wednesday night on its final recommendation for the traffic circle that once hosted a statue of Confederate Gen.
Street name changes are in the works. We hoped to change Lee Circle to Bulbancha Way but that may not be in the cards. The commission charged with renaming New Orleans streets and landmarks that now pay homage to Confederates
Many people still don’t know that ‘New Orleans’ was already a place, a place with a name, before the first Europeans set sail for the area. Jeffery U. Darrensbourg, Ph.D., Tribal Councilperson and enrolled member of the Atakapa-Ishak Nation First,