Offensive names dot the American street map − a new app provides a way to track them
- Written by Derek H. Alderman, Professor of Geography, University of Tennessee
Clear County, Colo., had three roads using the word 'sq—' until May 2024, when officials renamed them.Tom Hellauer/Denver GazetteThe racially motivated tragedy in Charleston, South Carolina, in 2015, when a white supremacist murdered nine Black worshippers, and the deadly white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, two years later...
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