Duke University

Duke University Renames Iconic Building to Honor First Black Women to Attend the School
Duke University Renames Iconic Building to Honor First Black Women to Attend the School

For the first time in its campus history, Duke University will name one of its iconic buildings after a Black woman. Wilhelmina Reuben-Cooke — one of the “First Five” undergraduate Black students to enroll at the university in 1963 — will have her name on the university’s sociology-psychology...