After racist emails, Wake Forest University keeps armed guards outside some classrooms

After racist emails, Wake Forest University keeps armed guards outside some classrooms

The emails arrived after a tumultuous spring semester. In February, after a photo of a person in blackface and another wearing a Ku Klux Klan robe was found on the medical-school yearbook page of Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam (D) generated national headlines, the university’s president, Nathan Hatch, addressed the campus about racist images and language in old copies of the Wake Forest school yearbook. Those included references to lynching, racial slurs, Confederate symbols and photos of students in blackface.

Hatch wrote that the university continues “to explore and improve how to reconcile our complex history with the progress we’ve made and the sense of belonging we want everyone in our community to feel.” Those efforts included researching the school’s historical ties to slavery.

Later that month, the university’s dean of admissions, Martha Allman, wrote a message to the campus apologizing for a photo in the 1982 yearbook in which she is posing with members of the Kappa Alpha Order fraternity around a giant Confederate flag. Another leader of the admissions office was also in photos with a Confederate flag. Hatch later announced that he had accepted Allman’s apology.

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