Jay Holbert News Today

On Friday afternoon, 30 law enforcement officers tried their best to stay off the community's naughty list with the 12th annual Operation Rudolph.

Why carry an offensive term with such a murky past into the future?

Johnson County can’t “rewrite history,” the county’s NAACP president said. Historians recently uncovered the painful story behind the creek’s name.

Negro Creek runs for 6.5 miles south of 151st Street, through parts of Overland Park and Leawood, but few people knew its name until the Black Lives Matter protests in 2020. An informal committee that included members of the NAACP and other community groups began exploring the creek's origin but couldn't agree on an alternative name for the creek.

A local advisory committee in Johnson County, Kansas has made the decision to retain the name of an area river, Negro Creek.

The Johnson County Board of County Commissioners will hear a presentation Thursday about the possible renaming of Negro Creek.