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Harvard Dorm's Slave-Owning Namesakes Spark Student Denaming Petition Harvard Dorm's Slave-Owning Namesakes Spark Student Denaming Petition
Harvard Dorm's Slave-Owning Namesakes Spark Student Denaming Petition A group of undergraduate students is making Harvard University stick to its promise to consider requests for name changes of buildings with namesakes who supported "abhorrent" beliefs or actions.  Two student organizations, the Generational African American Students Association of Harvard and Natives at Harvard College, created a petition to dename John Winthrop House, an undergraduate dorm that boasts a history of alumni including John F. Kennedy.  "John Winthrop House is named after two individuals whose ideas and actions would be abhorrent today," read an Instagram post by the two organ…

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by Morgan Gonzales