By Joseph Choi - 03/07/21 01:49 PM EST
Three University of South Alabama (USA) professors have been placed on leave after photos of them dressed in racially insensitive Halloween costumes reportedly surfaced.
As ABC News reports, photos from a 2014 on-campus Halloween party surfaced last week that showed USA finance professor Bob Wood dressed as a Confederate soldier while fellow professors Alex Sharland and Teresa Weldy were shown posing with whips and nooses.
USA President Tony Waldrop said on Friday that an investigation into the photos will be carried out by attorney Suntrease Williams-Maynard, who is a former trial attorney for the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and also served as a former assistant U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Alabama.
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Plus, writer Mark Arax tells us about his research into the history of the Confederacy in the Central Valley.
And, as part of our collaboration with the personal history project StoryCorps, 15-year-old Emily Gorospe interviews her mother Valerie Gorospe about her grandmother, Teresa De Anda. De Anda became a fierce environmental justice advocate after a pesticide drift poisoned people in the town of Earlimart in 1999.
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