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The Echo

The student news site of St. Louis Park High School

The Echo

The student news site of St. Louis Park High School

The Echo

Murals depicting Justice Alan Page cover the walls above each main entrance of Justice Page Elementary Middle School. The school was renamed in 2017 after Justice Page, in a movement to remove insensitive titles of places in the community.

Retitling and rethinking

Eliah Fink, Photo Editor January 24, 2024

In the world, and specifically in the Park community, over the past few years there has been a trend of renaming places, monuments and even lakes to be more appropriate and politically correct. Two well-known...

Formally Lake Calhoun has been renamed to the original name Bde Maka Ska. This is one small step Minnesota has taken to honor and show whose land we are on.

Acknowledging the acknowledgement

Georgia Hughes January 24, 2024

Recently, Park has made an effort towards acknowledging the land on which the school is on and the indigenous people who used to live on it. Despite several changes, some students have expressed discontent. Junior...

Performative activism at Park

Performative activism at Park

Anisa Kahin October 14, 2022

With the district’s new land acknowledgement, things at Park still feel the same. Words are being said without direct action coming after. Every Wednesday morning, a recording is played over the speaker...

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