Michael Kovac/Getty Images On the site of a residential college that for more than 50 years bore the name of Woodrow Wilson, the president who oversaw the segregation of the federal Civil Service, a new Princeton residential college will be built and named after Mellody Hobson , a prominent Black alumna, the university said . Ms. Hobson, who graduated from Princeton in 1991, serves as a chief executive of Ariel Investments, which describes itself as the first Black-owned investment firm. The residential college, Hobson College, will be the first in the school’s history to honor a Black woman. The announcement about Hobson College came after the university had faced significant pressure from students and the public to remove Wilson’s name as part of a movement toward racial equality. It comes at a time when calls for racial justice and a heightened examination of biases — from hot cereal packaging to law enforcement — have been brought to the forefront in part by George Floyd’s killing in Minneapolis in May. In June, the university’s board of trustees voted to remove Wilson’s name from the School of Public and International Affairs, formerly the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, […]

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