The Dallas Bar Association, which now owns the Belo Mansion building in downtown Dallas, has agreed to change the name of the building because it's named for a former Confederate Army officer.
A statement from Dallas Bar Association president Aaron Tobin says, in part, the decision "doubles down on our commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion."
The mansion was built by Alfred Horatio Belo who, after the Civil War, moved to Texas where he got into the newspaper business.
In 1885, Belo sent George Bannerman Dealey to Dallas to help establish the newspaper that became the current Dallas Morning News.