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A used bookstore in Schenectady has a new home. The Whitney Book Corner, a used bookstore run by the Friends of the Schenectady County Public Library is now open on Clinton Street - directly across from city hall.
Wake Forest University will rename a campus building in an attempt to reckon with an institutional history that stretches back to before the Civil War and includes slavery. The university announced Friday that it will give Wingate Hall a new name: May 7, 1860 Hall. That's the date when it sold 16 enslaved persons at auction to benefit the school. But the adjacent Wait Chapel will keep its name, Wake Forest University President Nathan Hatch wrote in a message to campus Friday. Both buildings are named for past Wake Forest presidents, both of whom owned slaves who worked at the school and helpe...