Rhode Island moves to change official name over slavery ties US news | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/24/rhode-island-official-name-change-governor-slavery

>Governor’s order would shorten state’s full name of ‘The State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations’ to just ‘Rhode Island’

>The governor Gina Raimondo said: ‘The pain that this association causes to some of our residents should be of concern to all Rhode Islanders.’
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>Rhode Island governor Gina Raimondo has signed an executive order announcing the state would move forward with changing its official name due to its ties to American slavery.
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>The state’s official name, “The State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations,” appears on state documents. But the order would shorten it to just “Rhode Island”.
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>“The pain that this association causes to some of our residents should be of concern to all Rhode Islanders and we should do everything in our power to ensure that all communities can take pride in our state,” the governor wrote.
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>Raimondo, a Democrat, added that the new name would take effect “as soon as practicable” and apply to all state government communications, including agency websites and correspondence.
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>On Twitter, responses to the proposed name change focused on the users’ ignorance to the original name. Many noted the full name for Rhode Island had not been taught an any point in their primary or secondary education.
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>“People not knowing that Rhode Island is actually short for ‘Rhode Island and Providence Plantations’ is exactly why African American history belongs on every school curriculum,” one user tweeted.
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TIL Was taught it was just Rhode Island...

Something something history education...