Critics want racist senator`s name stripped from Reno park
(WorldNews Politics)

RENO, Nev. (AP) — Residents have launched an effort to rename a southwest Reno park honoring a U.S. senator from Nevada best known as the father of the first major irrigation project in the West in the early 1900s but who — unbeknownst to most — also believed Black people shouldn`t be allowed to vote. Like most people, Khalilah Cage had no idea the park where she often plays with her children is named after the powerful 19th century politician, Francis G. Newlands. “He didn`t even consider African Americans to be citizens,” said Cage, who is Black. `My kids are 9 and 7, and this park we go to has a monument to this man who thought (terrible) things about us,” she told the Reno Gazette...