St. Croix Source recently reported that a mayor in Copenhagen has be in discussion of a plan to consider new streets to be named after USVI heroes in the wake of worldwide Black Lives Matter protests, sparked by the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis.

Heroes of the 1848 revolt that led Gov. Peter Von Scholten to emancipate unfree Virgin Islanders, and leaders of the 1878 Fireburn labor revolt that forced the government to eliminate serf-like restrictions on Black workers, are among the Virgin Islanders being considered. To read the full article here.