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Why Gov. Whitmer renamed Lansing’s Lewis Cass Building the ‘Elliott-Larsen Building’

Downtown Lansing’s Lewis Cass Building is no more. On Tuesday, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed an executive order renaming it the Elliott-Larsen Building. The move comes after weeks of Black Lives Matter protests have toppled Confederate statues and other racist monuments. Detroit, of course, doesn’t have any monuments to the Confederacy, but as University of Michigan […]

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