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UPenn Students Remove Shakespeare Portrait to Send ‘Inclusive’ Message after Election

By Alice B. Lloyd
Published December 14, 2016 7:40pm ET
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UPenn Students Remove Shakespeare Portrait to Send ‘Inclusive’ Message after Election
University of Pennsylvania students took down a large, centrally-located portrait of Shakespeare from the English Department to send a message of inclusivity, according to the department’s chair. According to the Daily Pennsylvanian, a small but determined mob of English majors executed a swap of the artwork for a depiction of the black queer poet Audre […]

University of Pennsylvania students took down a large, centrally-located portrait of Shakespeare from the English Department to send a message of inclusivity, according to the department’s chair.

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