This app tracks America’s offensive street names

Government officials, activists, and other people have called for a renaming of certain places and institutions.

The racially motivated tragedy in Charleston, South Carolina, in 2015, when a white supremacist murdered nine Black worshippers, and the deadly white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, two years later compelled Americans to confront the role played by memorials, monuments, and other symbols in glorifying racist ideologies.