As Americans celebrate Black History Month, shrines to racists and racism are going the way of the Berlin Wall.

Yale University officials announced last week that they will rename Calhoun College, one of the institution’s eight original residential colleges. It was named after former U.S. Vice President John Calhoun, an 1804 Yale graduate who defended slavery.

“At Harvard Law School, officials replaced a shield that was the family crest of slave owners. At the University of North Carolina, officials renamed a hall that had honored a leader of the Ku Klux Klan,” explains a Washington Post article published in The Gazette.

“Colleges across the country – as well as other institutions, cities and legislative bodies – have wrestled with similar questions, as they consider monuments to the past in the context of modern life.”

Read more at The Colorado Springs Gazette.