Offensive names dot the American street map − a new app provides a way to track them

Clear County, Colo., had three roads using the word 'sq—' until May 2024, when officials renamed them. Tom Hellauer/Denver Gazette

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.

George Floyd’s murder at the hands of a white Minneapolis police officer in 2020 only lent urgency to that challenge.