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After years of advocacy, Oregon is renaming two creeks to remove racist names
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 in Tillamook County to Jack Creek, and the name of Negro Creek in Douglas County to Triple Nickles Creek. ...
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