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Signs that read “Negro Mountain” have been removed from highways in Western Maryland, the latest development in a long-simmering controversy over the name. Negro Mountain is a 30-mile ridge in ...

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) -- Democratic member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives Rosita Youngblood joined The Mike Pintek Show to discuss a controversial landmark. "Negro Mountain" is located ...

Washington Redskins, meet Negro Mountain. One is the name of our hometown football team; the other a mountain ridge that stretches from Western Maryland into Pennsylvania. One name is patently ...

A Pennsylvania state representative wants to rename the mountain ridge that runs from Somerset County into Maryland.

Rosita Youngblood has initiated a bill since 2007 to change the name of a Pennslyvania peak called "Negro Mountain." ...

The history of “Negro Mountain,” in Garrett County, Md. is a dubious one. The mountain, a 30-mile ridge of the Allegheny Mountains stretching North from Deep Creek Lake in Maryland, to the ...

What’s in a name? When that name is Runaway Negro Creek, a lot of mythology, and racism, masquerading as history. Why crude names are still on the maps, and how some communities are seeking change.

A Philadelphia lawmaker is teaming up with one of her Maryland colleagues to lobby for the renaming of an Appalachian peak called Negro Mountain that sits on the line between the two states.

There are some questionably-named places around the state. One state representative has repeatedly introduced legislation to change the controversial name of a mountain in Somerset County.

Those disparate reactions to “Negro Mountain,” the name that 18th-century settlers gave to the Garrett County landmark, have found their echo in Annapolis, where a Senate panel will begin ...

The State Highway Administration took down a total of four signs after complaints that the Negro Mountain signage was racially insensitive.