Uproar Erupts at U. of Richmond Over Building Names With Ties to Racism

The racial reckoning sweeping higher education has taken an unusual turn at the University of Richmond. While other schools are expunging from campus buildings the names of figures from the past who promoted White supremacy, Richmond’s leadership in two cases is preserving them.  The university’s board of trustees decided in February, and reaffirmed this month, that a pair of campus buildings will continue to bear the names of two of its 19th- and 20th-century leaders with ties to slavery and segregation. The decision has sparked an uproar among students and faculty.