It’s time to change the names of two bridges in Maryland, according to the Caucus of African American Leaders of Anne Arundel County.
One bridge is Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge. Once the bridge is reconstructed, it must be renamed because of Key’s racist legacy. The bridge collapsed in late March when a cargo ship struck a support beam. Francis Scott Key wrote the national anthem.
The group plans to lobby Governor Wes Moore, a Democrat, and Maryland’s Democrat-controlled General Assembly.
The consortium of Civil Rights groups includes the NAACP, the National Coalition of 100 Black Women, and others. It voted to recommend changing the name of the Key Bridge because it honors a man who enslaved African Americans and wrote lyrics that scholars have found “demeaned Black people.”
The caucus is now calling on Gov. Wes Moore and the Maryland General Assembly to rename the…
