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Liberal Boston Globe Columnist Argues Against Renaming Faneuil Hall

Left-wing activists who want Faneuil Hall in Boston renamed because its donor and namesake was a slave trader in the 1700s staged a reenactment of a slave auction Saturday outside the building known as the Cradle of Liberty. Adrian Walker, who is black, argues in The Boston Globe that the slave auction was counterproductive.

Left-wing activists who want Faneuil Hall in Boston renamed because its donor and namesake was a slave trader in the 1700s staged a reenactment of a slave auction Saturday outside the building known as the Cradle of Liberty. Adrian Walker, who is black, argues in The Boston Globe that the slave auction was counterproductive.…