Trisha Ahmed

Associated Press statehouse reporter covering North Dakota and Minnesota via Report for America. As a Bangladeshi-American who was raised atheist in the Bible Belt, Trisha spends her life between cultures and sub-cultures. Her favorite stories to cover are about race, ethnicity, and socioeconomic disparities.

LATEST ARTICLES BY Trisha Ahmed

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U.S. renames five places that used racist slur for a Native woman
January 18, 2023 By Trisha Ahmed
The renamed sites are in California, North Dakota, Tennessee and Texas, completing a yearlong process to remove the historically offensive word “squaw” from geographic names.
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Trisha Ahmed

LATEST ARTICLES BY Trisha Ahmed

U.S. renames five places that used racist slur for a Native woman