VCU Sparks Student, Faculty Revolt After Nixing 'Racial Literacy' Requirement
Michael Robinson Chavez/The Washington Post via Getty ImagesHundreds of professors and students at Virginia Commonwealth University have penned an angry letter targeting the school’s administration after its sudden decision to nix a “racial literacy” class requirement—calling the move an act of “blatant institutional racism.”VCU claimed that it was on the edge of making history as one of the country’s first institutions of higher education to require students to take such courses, until school o