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UC Berkeley has no plans to change its name after report its namesake was slave owner

Trinity College Dublin, a university in Ireland, will remove the name Berkeley from its main library on campus, The New York Times reported. The university concluded that George Berkeley, whom the library is named after, owned slaves in colonial Rhode Island, according to the Times. The University of California, Berkeley, was also named for the […]

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