The Atlanta Public School Board is scheduled to vote next week on a name change: Grady High School would be renamed Midtown High School if the Board approves. The calls for the renaming came amid concerns and controversy over the 19th century editor of the Atlanta Constitution who is the namesake of the school: Henry Grady is said to have been a white supremacist.

“The entire time I’ve been on this board I’ve been lobbied by students and other folks in the community to have this conversation and look at changing this name because of many things that happened in the past in this country and this person specifically do not reflect values that we want to carry forward today,” said board member Leslie Grant.

There is similar controversy in Athens and at the University of Georgia, with calls to rename UGA’s Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication.

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