john c. calhoun
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Meet The Black Woman Abolitionist Whose Name Is Replacing a White Slaveowner’s In A Town Square
This Georgia city is renaming a historic district in her honor, as it should.
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DeAndre Hopkins, Deshaun Watson Petition Clemson to Remove John C. Calhoun's Name From Honors College
Outside of chin-checking racists and forgetting what I look like with a haircut, one of my favorite pastimes is spending exorbitant amounts of time devouring Wikipedia pages. And a cursory glance at John Caldwell Calhoun’s page reveals that our former vice president is remembered for “strongly defending slavery,” marrying his cousin and inciting the Civil…
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Yale Renames Building of Slavery Defender John C. Calhoun to Honor ‘Amazing Grace’
As is the case with many institutions of higher learning confronting their slave-tinged pasts and renaming their buildings, Yale University announced Saturday that it would change the name of the residential college of white supremacist John C. Calhoun to honor computer scientist Grace Murray Hopper. The New York Times reports that the decision to rename…
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Yale May Reconsider Keeping Name of Calhoun College
It seems that the name of Calhoun College at Yale is still up for debate. The university has announced that it may revisit the decision to keep the name of the residential college, which was named after 19th-century alumnus John C. Calhoun, a known and ardent supporter of slavery, the Associated Press reports. Originally, despite students’…
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Black Yale Employee Arrested, Loses Job After Smashing Stained Glass Panel Depicting Slaves Carrying Cotton
An employee at Yale University is out of a job and now has an arrest record after smashing a stained glass panel in the university’s Calhoun residential college dining hall that depicted slaves carrying cotton, the New Haven Independent reports. Corey Menafee said that he was tired of looking at the “racist, very degrading” panel…