SOUTHERN BAPTIST SEMINARY TO KEEP SLAVEHOLDER NAMES ON BUILDINGS; CREATES $5M SCHOLARSHIP FOR BLACK STUDENTS
Southern Baptist Theological Seminary leadership has voted to keep the names of school founders who owned slaves on buildings, but also approved the creation of a $5 million scholarship for African-American students. At their recent fall meeting, SBTS trustees unanimously voted to keep names like founding president James P. Boyce and founding faculty members John Broadus, Basil […]