{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://ross.house.gov/2021/12/congresswoman-ross-urges-postal-service-update-name-oberlin-village-post-0", "Congresswoman Ross Urges Postal Service to Update the Name of Oberlin Village Post Office", "2021-12-15", "2021", "2021-12", "Democrat", "House", "NC", "Deborah K. Ross", "R000305", "ross.house.gov", "ross", "https://ross.house.gov/press-releases", "scraper", "Raleigh, NC \u2013 Today, Congresswoman Deborah Ross (NC-02) sent a letter urging the local postmaster of the U.S. Post Office located at 806 Oberlin Road, Raleigh, North Carolina 27605 to change the name of the post office to the \u201cOberlin Village Post Office.\u201d Still referred to as the \u201cCameron Village\u201d Post Office by the U.S. Postal Service (USPS), the new name would recognize the post office\u2019s location in the Oberlin Baptist Church as well as the rich history and contributions of the Oberlin community.\n\nThis post office was previously located adjacent to a shopping center which until recently was known as Cameron Village. Named after the owner of the Cameron Plantation, where hundreds of enslaved people were once confined, the name of the post office is an archaic tribute to a horrific past that does not fit the inclusive community that now calls the area home. While the shopping center was recently renamed the \u201cVillage District,\u201d the post office still bears the name \u201cCameron Village\u201d\u2014despite the name\u2019s troubling history and its new location farther away from the shopping center.\n\nThe letter read in part: \u201cThe current location of this Post Office, on a property owned by the Oberlin Baptist Church, lies within the geographic boundary of Oberlin Village, one of the last surviving antebellum settlements founded by a free Black person in the State of North Carolina\u2026My constituents and members of my community continue to be frustrated that the current Post Office name does not bear the name of the community in which it is located, and that it continues to commemorate the troubling, racist past of Cameron Village.\u201d\n\nCongresswoman Ross previously sent a letter to USPS urging that it update the name of the Oberlin Village Post Office. In accordance with their guidance, Rep. Ross\u2019 letter is requesting that the local postmaster initiate the request to change the name.\n\nThe below map from the from the Raleigh Historic Development Commission highlights that the post office (#806) is located in the Oberlin Village District.\n\nFull text of the letter is available here.", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T20:37:48Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://ross.house.gov/2021/12/congresswoman-ross-urges-postal-service-update-name-oberlin-village-post-0"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.6961701437830925, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}