{"id":57313,"date":"2019-01-19T05:12:30","date_gmt":"2019-01-19T05:12:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=57313"},"modified":"2019-01-22T19:01:11","modified_gmt":"2019-01-22T19:01:11","slug":"more-cities-add-barack-obamas-name-to-landmarks-highways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=57313","title":{"rendered":"More cities add Barack Obama&#8217;s name to landmarks, highways"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/nation\/2019\/01\/13\/barack-obama-former-president-african-american-black-naming-renaming-freeway-highway\/2539917002\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>More cities add Barack Obama&#8217;s name to landmarks, highways<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">USA TODAY<\/a><br \/>\n2019-01-13<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/chriswoodyard\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Chris Woodyard<\/strong><\/a>, Los Angeles Bureau Chief<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"USATODAY- Embed Player\" src=\"https:\/\/uw-media.usatoday.com\/embed\/video\/38842289?placement=snow-embed\" width=\"540\" height=\"350\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Los_Angeles\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LOS ANGELES<\/a> \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barack_Obama\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Barack Obama<\/a> hasn&#8217;t been the president for nearly two years, but his fame is still spreading \u2013 at least when it comes to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_things_named_after_Barack_Obama\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">naming things after him<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The nation&#8217;s first African-American president need not go far around the country these days to find something that carries his name. There&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/Barack+Obama+Way,+New+Albany+Township,+IN+47150\/@38.3638848,-85.8193072,17z\/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x88696efb4ff20047:0xb6ecb5f17bcc2883!8m2!3d38.3638848!4d-85.8171185\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Barack Obama Way<\/a> in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/New_Albany_Township,_Floyd_County,_Indiana\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New Albany Township, Indiana<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/Barack+Obama+Boulevard,+Pahokee,+FL+33476\/@26.823893,-80.6656366,17z\/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x88d952f7532db31b:0xaae95cd6cd262748!8m2!3d26.823893!4d-80.6634479\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Barack Obama Boulevard<\/a> in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pahokee,_Florida\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pahokee, Florida<\/a>. There&#8217;s a long list of schools now named for him, like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.plainfieldnjk12.org\/Schools\/BOAACD\/BOAACD.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Barack Obama Academy for Academic &amp; Civic Development<\/a> in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Plainfield,_New_Jersey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Plainfield, New Jersey<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rvaschools.net\/BOES\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Barack Obama Elementary School<\/a> in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Richmond,_Virginia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Richmond, Virginia<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Obama even has animal species named after him, like <a href=\"http:\/\/polycentric.cpp.edu\/2017\/12\/marine-biologist-discovers-three-new-species-of-sea-slugs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>placida barackobamai<\/em><\/a>, a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sea_slug\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sea slug<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/nation\/2019\/01\/13\/barack-obama-former-president-african-american-black-naming-renaming-freeway-highway\/2539917002\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York, Chicago and Los Angeles are all have efforts underway to name things after America&#8217;s first African-American president<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,63,8,26,20,693],"tags":[455,3027,29278,29279,3707,5488,5456,787,5366,2711,596,29277,2346],"class_list":["post-57313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-barack-obama","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-usa","category-virginia","tag-california","tag-chicago","tag-chris-woodyard","tag-douglas-brinkley","tag-florida","tag-illinois","tag-indiana","tag-los-angeles","tag-new-jersey","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-placida-barackobamai","tag-usa-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57313"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57351,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57313\/revisions\/57351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}