The Derogatory Geographic Names Task Force will include representatives from federal land management agencies and diversity, equity and inclusion experts.
The U.S. Board on Geographic Names voted Oct. 14 to change a racially insensitive name of a creek that runs through Ladd and DePue in eastern Bureau County.
by Tyler Durden
Congressional Democrats introduced the
Reconciliation in Place Names Act last Friday to address land areas with racist and bigoted names. More than 1,000 land units and geographic features with racist names, such as Negro Mountain along the Allegheny Mountains, stretching 30-mile from Deep Creek Lake, Maryland, to Casselman River in Pennsylvania, are still labeled on US maps.
Democratic Sens. Elizabeth Warren, Edward Markey, and Rep. Al Green, along with 25 cosponsors, all Democrats, introduced the bill. We need to immediately stop honoring the ugly legacy of racism and bigotry, and that s why I m introducing the Reconciliation in Place Names Act with my colleagues, Warren said in a statement.
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