Stephen L. Carter, Columnist

Honor the Past, Not the Racism

How far is too far in relabeling things named for great but flawed Americans?

September 11, 2015 at 6:14 PM UTC

Stephen L. Carter is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist, a professor of law at Yale University and author of “Invisible: The Story of the Black Woman Lawyer Who Took Down America’s Most Powerful Mobster.”

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Last week the Democratic Party of West Virginia announced the date of its annual Jefferson-Jackson Dinner, so I suppose the state’s Democrats aren’t joining the rush to dump the name.

Good for them.