University of Richmond Trustees ‘Suspend’ Decision on Building Names With Ties to Slavery And Segregation

The board’s action, signaling a shift from what had seemed to be a dug-in position on the matter, followed a weeks-long uproar at the private 3,900-student liberal arts university. In February and then again in March, university leaders had proclaimed that they would continue to keep the surnames of the Rev. Robert Ryland and Douglas Southall Freeman on two prominent buildings.