City Slammed for Stalling on Plan to Rename Racist Ballpark

Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast/GettyA major city in California—marred by its history with the Ku Klux Klan—has stalled its efforts to change the title of a park that was named after an early 20th century white supremacist.Nearly four years after Fresno City Council passed a resolution to rename the John Euless Ballpark and review and potentially rename other city landmarks with associations to “cultural or historic figure[s] known to be racist or bigoted,” the park is s

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