Kansas City Star Denounces Negro Creek

Here's what happens when a daily metropolitan newspaper loses their desire to confront REAL problems and/or powerful people . . .

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"Renaming Negro Creek is the right thing to do. And while we respect and honor the commitment of the Johnson County committee tasked with studying the issue, its members simply erred."

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Nobody even knows how Leawood's Negro Creek really got its name. Keeping it is wrong | Opinion

The committee recommending that Johnson County's Negro Creek keep its name got it wrong. So, so wrong. Researchers have not been able to pin down the origin of the name of the small tributary that flows through Ironhorse Golf Course, just south of 151st Street between Mission Road and Nall Avenue in Leawood.