The University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School is finally doing away with an overt sign of racism on its campus — and we hope you’re not too disappointed, because Professor Amy Wax has absolutely nothing to do with it for once.
Penn Law will be removing the name of former Supreme Court chief justice, Roger Brooke Taney, from a limestone medallion on the exterior of the school’s main building. If you recall, Taney is the justice who wrote the majority opinion in Dred Scott, which upheld slavery in the United States.
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