Places across the US Include Racist Slurs in Their Names

Vocativ and Colorlines report that over 1,400 federally recognized place names in the United States include racist slurs. Jennings Brown describes the Vocativ study’s methods: Using 2.2 million official location names form the US Geological Survey’s Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) in combination with the Racial Slur Database, Vocativ “tallied and mapped hundreds of places […]
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