After Years of Advocacy, Oregon Is Renaming Two Creeks to Remove Racist Names

Nov 14th 2024 1:29pm EST

Several proposals by the Oregon Geographic Names Board, the U.S. Forest Service, and Oregon Black Pioneers, and multiple years later, two geographic places in Oregon with a history of racially insensitive names have been renamed. On Wednesday, Sept. 18, the U.S. Board on Geographic Names approved proposals to change the name of Negro Jack Creek […]

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