He was an inventor, an entrepreneur, a media pioneer, an educator, a teacher, and a mentor whose cultural legacy reached far beyond his adopted hometown of San Diego.

Now Willie Lee Morrow, who died in 2022, has a San Diego street named after him after a years-long attempt to honor his storied legacy.

Morrow’s name was unveiled Thursday – on what would have been his 85th birthday – on Tooley Street in Encanto, during a ceremony presided over by San Diego City Councilmember Henry Foster III and activist and advocate Shane Harris, who was an the original architect of the years-long effort to memorialize him. • Tooley Street

“This is not just a street sign,” Harris said in a statement. “It’s a symbol of how one man’s brilliance and commitment to his people can leave a legacy that still u

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