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FILE - In this Aug. 21, 2017, file photo, pedestrians walk past Faneuil Hall in Boston. In an open letter to Boston Mayor Marty Walsh, dated July 30, 2018, some black Bostonians are threatening a boycott because the building's 18th-century namesake was a slave owner. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)

Boycott looms for landmark named after slave owner

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FILE - In this Monday, Aug. 21, 2017, file photo, pedestrians pass Faneuil Hall, also known as &quot;the Cradle of Liberty&quot; in Boston. Faneuil Hall, of the most iconic buildings in Boston, where the earliest calls for independence from Britain were sounded in the late 1700s, is named for a man who owned and traded black slaves. Now a move to rename the historic structure is gaining momentum. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)

Should liberty icon Faneuil Hall’s slave ties mean renaming?

By MARK PRATT - Associated Press

Boston’s Faneuil Hall closing for renovations

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