Patrick Henry enslaved people, pushing these students to rename their Mpls. high school

When Davontae White-Sledge began his freshman year at Patrick Henry High, he had never heard of the building's namesake. The first time he wore the north Minneapolis school's red and gray football uniform, one of his classmates told him all he wanted to know. "I heard he was a slave owner," White-Sledge said in an interview. "That threw me off right away." Now a senior, White-Sledge is part of ...

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