This is the WFHB Local News for Monday, June 22nd, 2020. Later in the program, WFHB Correspondent Braydyn Lents spoke with Chuck Carney, Indiana University spokesperson, about renaming buildings at the university. Braydyn Lents also talked to Megan Campbell, an activist who started a petition to rename Jordan Avenue, Jordan Hall and the Jordan River. Also coming up in the …
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Indiana University is among a list of schools to rename statues and buildings of alumni whose pasts are clouded with racism. On Friday, the IU Board of Trustees voted unanimously to approve a resolution to rename the intramural center. The center is located on the Bloomington campus and will be renamed ‘The William Leon Garrett Fieldhouse,’ in honor of Bill …
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Bill Garrett was the first African-American college basketball player at Indiana University. While Major League Baseball and National Football were moving towards desegregation, Garrett would spend his entire college career without playing against another black player. Bob Hammel tells Garrett’s story, and the story of desegregation in college basketball, in this week’s edition of The Bicentennial Journal—looking back on 200 …
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