The problem is a hall named after someone who owned slaves.

The Harvard Crimson reported.

Law School Activists Occupy Student Center

Student activists began to occupy a portion of Harvard Law School’s Caspersen Student Center Monday evening in an effort to create a space on campus they say has been denied to minorities at the school. Calling the lounge “Belinda Hall” after a former slave of prominent Law School benefactors, the group of activists led by Reclaim Harvard Law said they plan to remain there indefinitely.

Last fall, Reclaim Harvard Law released a series of demands, calling on Law School administrators to create a critical race theory program, adjust the school’s curriculum, hire more diverse faculty, and change the school’s controversial seal featuring the shield of the Royall family, who owned slaves—including Belinda.

In late November, Law School Dean Martha L. Minow appointed a committee to reconsider the seal, and administrators have said they will continue to work on hiring more diverse faculty members and improving orientation programming for incoming students.

Student activists, though, say they are unsatisfied with the Law School’s response. After a quiet period that lasted throughout winter break and the early weeks of the semester, activists are visibly resuming their efforts—which last semester culminated in a number of protests.


 
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