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Robert C. Byrd's name removed from a college health center

by Associated Press
| June 18, 2020 12:03 AM

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A private college in West Virginia said Wednesday it is removing the name of the late U.S. Sen. Robert C. Byrd from its health center, saying his name had caused “divisiveness and pain" without explicitly noting his complicated past on racial matters.

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