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North Carolina Renames Prisons Whose Names Honored Enslavers
by Matthew Clarke
On September 30, 2021, over 156 years after the end of the Civil War, the North Carolina Department of Public Safety (DPS) announced the renaming of four prisons and a drug addiction treatment facility whose previous names honored racists, enslavers, and chattel slavery.
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