Some University of Kentucky faculty members are calling for the renaming of all campus buildings that memorialize 'enslavers, Confederate sympathizers...and other white supremacists,' including famed Rupp Arena, home of the university's basketball team
Some University of Kentucky faculty members are calling for the renaming of all campus buildings that memorialize"enslavers, Confederate sympathizers...and other white supremacists," including famed Rupp Arena, home of the university's basketball team.
The demands were outlined in a letter published Thursday that also called for the university to hire more black professors, among other requests.The arena is named after Adolph Rupp, a prominent basketball coach who refused to integrate his team after the Civil Rights Act, according to associate professor of history Anastasia Curwood.
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