Princeton University Names New Building After Mellody Hobson

Princeton University has just announced that it will be replacing Woodrow Wilson’s name on one of their buildings with Mellody Hobson’s instead, marking the first building on the campus to be named for a Black Woman.

Harrison is a philanthropist and co-CEO of Ariel Investments and recently made a generous donation to her alma mater so that they could create a new residential college where the Woodrow Wilson building used to be.

The renaming is fitting, as Wilson has a documented history of racism and he was all for the segregation of workers in federal agencies while he was at the White House.

“My hope is that my name will remind future generations of students — especially those who are Black and brown and the ‘firsts’ in their families — that they too belong. Renaming Wilson College is my very personal way of letting them know that our past does not have to be our future,” said Hobson, in the official announcement from Princeton about her gift.

Source:
TheRoot