Last week, there were a lot of questions being raised about the legacy of Adolph Rupp. A group of faculty members in UK’s department of African American and Africana Studies sent a letter to president Eli Capilouto wanting Rupp Arena to be renamed.
That letter led to a lot of debate about Rupp and the way he handled race relations in the 60s. This is a conversation that has came up a number of times in the past.
On Thursday, Jon Hale of the Courier-Journal released an interview he discovered in the UK library system’s Louie B.