August Wilson’s plays are currently part of the school system’s high school curriculum, Ferebee said. Wilson, who was Black, was born in 1945 and died in 2005.

Woodrow Wilson High School in Tacoma will be renamed Dr. Dolores Silas High School. The Tacoma Public Schools Board of Director approved the name change for the school at a meeting Feb. 11. The ...

The D.C. Council has introduced a measure that would rename Woodrow Wilson High School in Northwest Washington to Jackson Reed High — an unusual objection to the Bowser administration, which ...

TACOMA, Wash. - A name change may be coming to Woodrow Wilson High School in Tacoma. It’s part of a national movement including Princeton removing Wilson’s name from its public policy school.

TACOMA, Wash. — Tacoma is one step closer to changing the name of Woodrow Wilson High School – after several alumni sent letters to the principal pointing out the former president’s racist ties.

“Woodrow Wilson was a very committed segregationist, and we would certainly like to see the name changed to somebody or something that is more in line with the school’s ideals and the city’s ...

On the C-SPAN Networks: Wilson (Woodrow) Senior High School (Washington, DC) has hosted 1 event in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first program was a 2003 Speech. As part of a C-SPAN and Comcast ...

The issue was brought to the table at a recent Tacoma school board meeting. Woodrow Wilson was the 28th president of the United States and served from 1913 to 1921. He was also a segregationist ...

D.C.’s Wilson High would still be Wilson High under a new proposal, but named in honor of Black playwright August Wilson instead of former president Woodrow Wilson. August Wilson High School is ...

DC’s largest high school—formerly known as Woodrow Wilson High School—is officially going by its new name: Jackson-Reed High School. The change went into effect on March 15, following years of calls ...

Dropping the racist figurehead and renaming Wilson High School after an extraordinary Tacoma Black female education leader is the best recommendation from a committee of volunteers.