Arkansas protesters oppose endowment from professor's estate
LITTLE ROCK -- An Arkansas university is drawing criticism after accepting a scholarship endowment from the estate of a former professor who reportedly assigned graduate students books that deny the Holocaust.
Dozens of students protested Tuesday at Arkansas Tech University in Russellville against the approximately $190,900 endowment from the estate of former history professor Michael Link.
In December, the university announced the scholarship in a press release, saying the endowment will be presented yearly to a senior student majoring in history who demonstrates financial need.
The Anti-Defamation League, a Jewish civil rights organization, opposes the university accepting the scholarship money with Link's name attached to it, and has proposed naming the scholarship only after his mother, whose name is also on the gift.
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(Hot Springs Sentinel-Record)
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Source: The Hill
A group of white supremacists in Arkansas interrupted a Holocaust remembrance event this week carrying Nazi flags and shouting racial slurs, local news reported Tuesday.
The Courier News reported that demonstrators interrupted Sunday's March of Remembrance in Russellville, Ark., an event meant to honor survivors and those who were killed in the Holocaust.
"It made me feel terrible, it made me feel terrible for my friends. They were talking to us like we were pieces of nothing," Joyce Griffis, the event's organizer told KFSM TV.
Randy Cook, who concluded the event with prayer, according to the Courier News, said the protests didn't reflect the Russellville community.
Read more: https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/442538-white-supremacists-interrupt-arkansas-holocaust-remembrance
