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.
AMY GOODMAN: Today, a
Democracy Now! special celebrating 25 years on the air. On February 19th, 1996, on the eve of the New Hampshire presidential primary,
Democracy Now! aired for the first time on nine community radio stations.
AMY GOODMAN: This is
Democracy Now! From Pacifica Radio, I’m Amy Goodman in Washington. Today on
Democracy Now!, “Live Free or Die,” a look at the political landscape in New Hampshire, where the Republican Revolution has taken its toll.
ARNIE ARNESEN: If you want a taste of the country after the revolution, you might as well visit New Hampshire today, because we’re the state that has the most regressive taxes in the country, that doesn’t have mandatory kindergarten, that doesn’t invest in its infrastructure.