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Virginia universities reckon with Confederate symbols FILE PHOTO: Demonstrators pulled down the Richmond Howitzers Monument at Virginia Commonwealth University (June 2020). The university was in the process of auditing Confederate symbols on its two campuses and has since begun removal and renaming of those symbols. Photo by Andrew Ringle, The Commonwealth Times. (Source: Capitol News Service) By Katharine DeRosa | Capital News Service | May 10, 2021 at 6:22 PM EDT - Updated May 11 at 12:30...

BY ERIC KOLENICH Richmond Times-Dispatch WILLIAMSBURG — The College of William & Mary has renamed three buildings and a department that currently honor supporters of the Confederacy, the school’s latest move in a years-long process to shed references to men who supported the Confederacy, enslavement and racism. Instead, the university will honor the school’s first Black student, a man who studied LGBTQ traditions and a descendent of a U.S. president. “The past...

Photo - of - by staff |  April 23, 2021 Following a consultative and thorough process established earlier this year, William & Mary’s Board of Visitors voted Friday to rename two campus buildings and name one campus structure to honor trailblazing alumni who helped open the door for marginalized people at both the university and beyond. Morton Hall will become John E. Boswell Hall, named for an alumnus, recognized scholar and ...

by staff |  February 26, 2021 William & Mary’s Working Group on the Principles of Naming and Renaming (PNR) this week presented its final report to President Katherine A. Rowe, who accepted it during the Board of Visitors meeting Thursday in the Alumni House. The roughly 50-page report, which is available on the working group’s website, includes a list of recommendations for how the university should move forward in reviewin...