Palo Alto

English +, California Etymology en es palo alto tall stick, named after El Palo Alto, a more than 1000-year-old coast redwood (Sequoia sempervirens species) tree near the city. Pronunciation en /ˌpæloʊ ˈæltoʊ/ Proper noun 1 en city co/Santa Clara County s/California c/USA. en Trudy Ring Mondaire Jones Could Be the Nation's First Black Gay Congressman The Advocate (magazine) The Advocate https://www.advocate.com/election/2020/6/22/mondaire-jones-could-be-nations-first-black-gay-congressman 2020-06-22 Criminal justice reform has become a national topic of discussion given recent police killings of Black men, and Jones points out that he's been a longtime activist on this issue, with his experience in Palo Alto and as an NAACP youth organizer. Also, he notes, as a Black man, "People like me are overpoliced, overarrested, overprosecuted." https://web.archive.org/web/20210815014447/https://www.advocate.com/election/2020/6/22/mondaire-jones-could-be-nations-first-black-gay-congressman Derived terms en Palo Alto County References TopoZone: Palo Alto