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Flipboard Culture Desk Jun 3, 2025

The U.S. Navy is considering renaming naval ships named after civil rights leaders including Harvey Milk, the slain gay rights leader and Navy veteran, Thurgood Marshall, the first African-American Supreme Court justice, and Lucy Stone, the abolitionist and suffragist. Here's more from @CBSNews.

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Navy set to rename USNS Harvey Milk, mulls new names for other ships named for civil rights leaders

U.S. Navy is renaming a ship named for gay rights leader Harvey Milk and considering new names for others named for prominent Americans.

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James M Branum - יעקב מתתיהו ☮Jun 3, 2025

And there's more...

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/navy-new-name-usns-harvey-milk-ships-named-for-civil-rights-leaders/

Excerpt: The documents obtained by CBS News also show other vessels named after prominent leaders are also on the Navy's renaming "recommended list."

Among them are the USNS Thurgood Marshall, USNS Ruth Bader Ginsburg, USNS Harriet Tubman, USNS Dolores Huerta, USNS Lucy Stone, USNS Cesar Chavez and USNS Medgar Evers.

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