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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 …

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 …