The street in Los Angeles was renamed Barack Obama

Following former US President Barack Obama, a stretch of road in Los Angeles has been renamed. Obama Boulevard unveiled a concert and ceremony on Saturday. Rodeo Road, a three and a half mile street running across the historic black neighborhood of the city, has been replaced by the street.

It also intersects with Martin Luther King Jr Boulevard and establishes a “presidential row” which includes boulevards in Washington, Adams and Jefferson. “I’m living in a lifetime where we’ve chosen our first black president,” South Los Angeles ‘ Rev Russell Thornhill told KABC TV.

“I get to share that with my mother, who’s 92 years old who voted and actually went to the inauguration. I called her before I came here to let her know what I was doing, and she was just in tears because she was seeing in her lifetime… the naming of a street of the first black president in this community.”

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti noted at Saturday’s ceremony that Obama Boulevard is in a section of the city that has a number of other streets named after presidents, the Los Angeles Times reported.

“As we drive through this city and we see past presidents on Adams, on Washington, on Jefferson, now we’ll have one that was in our lifetime, who was a president for everybody: Barack Hussein Obama,” Garcetti said.