Audubon Society Rejects Union’s Petition to Change Name Away from Slave-Owning Namesake Naturalist

The nationwide protests in 2020 sparked by the killings of Black citizens at the hands of US police ushered in a reckoning with the enduring legacies of the country’s past, which includes Native American genocide and African slavery. Numerous institutions were renamed so as to no longer honor those who participated in those horrid affairs.