Riley: Cobo officials explore selling naming rights to iconic center

Riley: Cobo officials explore selling naming rights to iconic center:
"The incidental good news, and not the reason for the name change exploration, is:
It would remove from the center the name Albert Cobo, who ran for Detroit mayor on a campaign of keeping the Negro invasion out of the city’s white neighborhoods.
Mayor Mike Duggan said he full supports the name change.
The bad news is: It would stand in the way of efforts to rename the center for boxer and American hero Joe Louis after the hockey arena bearing his name is torn down. 
...But if the convention center is successful in selling naming rights - and the city project to honor Louis works, here's the hat trick: One of Detroit's biggest and brightest buildings  — home of the world's greatest auto show —  would no longer bear the name of a racist at a time when cities across the country are ridding themselves of Confederate statues, which are nothing more than reminders of hate."