Stapleton may drop its neighborhood name after ongoing anti-racism demonstrations — and a day after school board member Tay Anderson vowed to protest in the northeast neighborhood if the community didn’t make a change.
The Master Community Association, which oversees the maintenance and operation of the neighborhood’s public spaces, said in a Facebook statement on Sunday they would begin the process to remove the Stapleton name. Discussions about changing the northeast Denver neighborhood’s name have been ongoing for years. The neighborhood shares its name with former Denver Mayor Benjamin Stapleton, who was a member of the Ku Klux Klan.
Read more of the story on Denverite.
Read previous Indy coverage here, and a Guest Post calling for the name change here.
