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Our outright vicious history with tribes cannot be mitigated with just a land acknowledgment, just a heritage month, just the unnaming of two lecture halls.
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Campus officials announced Wednesday that Barrows Hall and LeConte Hall will be unnamed due to the racist history behind their namesakes.
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After years of student advocacy, campus officials announced today that Barrows Hall and LeConte Hall at UC Berkeley will be unnamed due to their namesakes’ racist histories.
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We honor people who pioneered for social justice, organized for workers and fought against racism. Margy Wilkinson is a perfect fit for Barrows’ new name.
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The Independent Advisory Board on Police Accountability and Community Safety released its report on the UCPD on June 30, recommending more than 25 changes that aim to create a safer campus environment and increase police accountability.
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If UC Berkeley understands and opposes white supremacy, campus leaders will not simply excise the names of oppressors.
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The UC Berkeley African American Student Development Office wrote a proposal July 9 to the Building Name Review Committee demanding that Barrows Hall be denamed.
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UC Berkeley is considering a proposal to dename Barrows Hall, a building on campus that has long received criticism due to its namesake’s racist history.
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UC Berkeley’s Black student leaders and organizers have long advocated for increased recruitment, academic support and a more welcoming campus climate for Black students, but recent national unrest has reinvigorated the campus Black Lives Matter movement’s calls for change.
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With the increase in social distancing measures and the shelter-in-place order, UC Berkeley researchers are working from home, halting lab experiments and working on projects related to COVID-19.
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