NY Times Opinion: My Body Is a Confederate Monument’: Slavery, Rape and Reframing the Past
In the New York Times on July 3, Caroline Randall Williams discusses her essay that puts Black Southerners like her squarely at the heart of the debate.
Op-Ed: Remembering Lee Properly
The Miami Herald runs an op-ed by Justin McFarlin, “This Juneteenth, erase Robert E. Lee’s name, but not his history as this nation’s enemy.”
CHE: The Assault on Black Academics
The Chronicle of Higher Education puts the name decision in the context of a larger assault on black academics nationwide.
White Supremacy Was on Trial at Washington and Lee University. It Won.
Not Unmindful’s own Brandon Hasbrouck, an assistant professor of law at the School of Law, writes for Slate. Professor Habrouck opens the article with a brief summation of history, unadulterated and not wrapped in any mythmaking before getting to the main point of the article, as the title summarizes.
Rennard: Disheartened W&L kept its name
In a piece in the Roanoke Times, 2007 alumnus, Mike Rennard reacts to the decision.
View: Will W&L be called Univ. of Confederacy?
In a letter to the editor in the Richmond Times Dispatch, Bill Melton, ’74U (and member of Not Unmindful) poses this very question. Lots of good stuff here.
John M. Gunn, 45U
Lee’s name is a barrier to other major objectives the trustees have established: to increase numbers of minority students and members of the faculty, to make admissions to the university “need blind,” and to improve the total atmosphere of the college to emphasize honor, civility, and service.
Announcement Coming in June
The University community just received the following email from Rector Mike McAlevey ’86: We expect…
David Gunn Mascas
[Ed. Note: this letter was originally sent to and published by the Lexington News-Gazette. It…
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