Brown Renames Holiday Indigenous People's Day

Brown University, by a vote of its faculty on Tuesday, has designated what was once Columbus Day at the university as Indigenous People's Day. In 2009, the university dropped the Columbus Day name and designated that day off as the "fall weekend holiday." Tuesday's vote replaces that name. The resolution adopted by the faculty states that using the new name “would recognize the contributions of indigenous people/Native Americans to our community and our culture and foster a more inclusive community.”