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  Share Source: Joe Mahoney/Richmond Times-Dispatch via AP In a woke hypocrisy, the State Board of Community Colleges in Richmond, Virginia, is changing the name of Patrick Henry Community College. A month after the announcement, however, Gov. Ralph Northam recognized the Founding Father in a proclamation, designating June 29 as Patrick Henry Day. In updating its college naming policy, the Board agreed college names “Should reflect the values of inclusive and accessible education articulated in the VCCS mission statement, with special emphasis on diversity, equity, and opportunity, and be...

You can guess the reasons why. Fairfax County has named Robert E. Lee High school after civil rights icon John Lewis. Alexandria has renamed two schools. Hampton is renaming five schools that were previously named after either slaveowners, Confederates or segregationists. The College of William and Mary has renamed three buildings. The state community college system is renaming schools bearing the names of Lord Fairfax, John Tyler, Thomas Nelson and wants to change Patrick Henry and Dabney S. Lancaster. All this has come within the past few months. We don’t have space to list all the sch...

Five more historical figures have been hauled into the court of public opinion, found guilty of being either slaveholders, Confederates or segregationists, and sentenced to unnaming. All five have their names affixed to Virginia community colleges, although not for much longer. Three schools are already in the process of changing their names — Lord Fairfax that operates four locations in the northern Shenandoah Valley and Piedmont, John Tyler in Chesterfield County, and Thomas Nelson in Hampton. Two others have local boards that want to keep their names — Dabney S. Lancaster in Clif...

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Dabney S. Lancaster website image  Dabney S. Lancaster Community College’s main campus in Clifton Forge, as seen on the school’s website. The governing body of Virginia’s community college system is urging two institutions — including Dabney S. Lancaster Community College in Clifton Forge — to reconsider their decisions to maintain the names of their schools that honor people who advocated for segregation or owned slaves. The State Board for Community Colleges initiated a process last July of having colleges examine the names of their schools and buildings. Of the 23...