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Street Names Change, Building For Sea-Level Rise, And A Lotto Winner Gives Back

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Demonstrators at a rally held before the Hollywood Commission meeting where it was decided to rename streets that bear the names of Confederate generals.

Today in Sundial: Hollywood commissioners are debating the new names for three streets named after Confederate Gens. Robert E Lee, John Bell Hood and Nathan Bedford Forrest, the grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan. What should those new names be? Different people have different ideas. We'll hear from the man who has been fighting to make the change for more than a decade, as well as the current mayor.

The seas are rising and that's going to force cities and communities along the coast to rethink how they plan to protect themselves. We talk to an architect from Florida Atlantic University who has some ideas on how we can prepare for life with more water.

Then we meet Miguel Pilgram. He won more than $50 million in a lottery. Instead of living the high life, he's using a lot of that money to try and improve a community, starting with one street. 

Luis Hernandez is an award-winning journalist and host whose career spans three decades in cities across the U.S. He’s the host of WLRN’s newest daily talk show, Sundial (Mon-Thu), and the news anchor every afternoon during All Things Considered.