South Minneapolis street now honors a pioneer Black firefighter

Corey Webster, Becki Hardman and Alcindor Holie pose with a photo of their grandmother's distant uncle, John Cheatham, as the city of Minneapolis renames a street in the Longfellow neighborhood after the city's first Black fire captain, who worked at a fire station a few blocks away.
Tim Nelson | MPR News
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