BYU’s Black Student Union wants to remove the names from every building on campus

The library at Brigham Young University is named after a man who said if his granddaughter got “engaged to a colored boy” while she was at the school, he would hold administrators accountable. The law school there got its name from a different man who strongly advocated for blood banks to segregate donations from Black and white people so they wouldn’t be “mixed.”The BYU chemistry building is named for Ezra Taft Benson, who suggested that civil rights for Blacks wer