The street in front of the Miamihigh school that Trayvon Martin attended before his life was abruptly ended will be renamed Trayvon Martin Avenue.
Miami-Dade County commissioners approved the resolution this week to designate a portion of NE 16th Avenue after the 17-year-old, who was shot and killed in 2012.
The Black teen’s death at the hands of George Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch volunteer, “raised America’s consciousness and pierced its conscience,” according to Martin family attorney Benjamin Crump, who was quoted in the government memorandum to rename the road.
