Four community colleges in Virginia recently have changed their names from those of erstwhile slave owners and a fifth is to follow a similar suit next month in what critics see as an example of "cancel culture."
<p>“We enroll lots of people whose ancestors were enslaved, were marginalized, were clearly taken advantage of,” said Glenn DuBois, the system’s chancellor. “And what do you say to those students when they’re looking at some of these names?”</p>
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TNCC is named after Thomas Nelson Jr., a Revolutionary War hero, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence and the fourth governor of Virginia; he also enslaved people.
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