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Audubon Naturalist Society to cut ties with John James Audubon through name change

The Audubon Naturalist Society is dropping the name Audubon.

John James Audubon was a famous ornithologist — who was also an enslaver and a grave robber who seized the skulls of Native Americans.

NPR’s Melissa Block reports.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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