Cancel Culture Database Search by Keyword Target — Book Buildings/Names Curriculum Flag Guest Speaker Honorary Degrees Israel Mascots Miscellaneous Movie Music Painting Police Professor Comments Restaurant Signs Statue Student Comments Student Event Student Groups Theater Confederate? — Yes No Protested / Canceled? — Protested Canceled Clear IncidentSchool NameDateTargetConfederate?Protested/Canceled? Medical school removes portraits of ‘old, white’ former deans in name of ‘diversity’Dalhousie University Medical School08/03/2024PaintingNoCanceled College removes 18th century painting ‘over fears it would offend students’University of Oxford Oriel College04/20/2024PaintingNoCanceled Portrait of Lord Balfour at Cambridge destroyed by pro-Palestinian activistsCambridge University03/08/2024PaintingNoCanceled University cancels art exhibit featuring Palestinian artistIndiana University01/19/2024PaintingNoCanceled Med school removes photos of white male alumni to show commitment to diversityTexas A&M University01/18/2023PaintingNoCanceled West Point begins removing Confederate symbols, including Robert E. Lee portrait, from campus displayU.S. Military Academy at West Point12/27/2022PaintingYesCanceled U. of Kentucky to remove mural depicting slaves following unrelated racial incidentUniversity of Kentucky12/19/2022PaintingYesCanceled Painting of old white men smoking cigars taken down after female scholar complainsLeiden University11/17/2022PaintingNoCanceled Princeton cancels Jewish-American artists exhibit due to links to the ConfederacyPrinceton University03/29/2022PaintingYesCanceled Gonzaga removes photo of white student dressed as Native American from public galleryGonzaga University12/06/2021PaintingNoCanceled Queen Elizabeth's portrait removed from Oxford University due to 'colonialism' concernsOxford University06/09/2021PaintingNoCanceled Three Peoples murals to be covered after decades of controversyUniversity of New Mexico05/16/2021PaintingNoCanceled Law school defends its right to remove mural depicting slaves being freedVermont Law School02/12/2021PaintingNoCanceled Christopher Columbus murals covered with Native American tapestries at Notre DameUniversity of Notre Dame11/12/2020PaintingNoCanceled Citing Black Lives Matter, photos of retired white male professors to be taken down at U. OklahomaUniversity of Oklahoma08/26/2020PaintingNoCanceled Citing antiracism, University of Oregon to cover up controversial murals in campus libraryUniversity of Oregon08/25/2020PaintingNoCanceled College administrator reportedly censored internment campus artwork due to ‘liability’ issuesBellevue College04/21/2020PaintingNoCanceled Pro-Hong Kong art display removed after Chinese students complainUniversity of Missouri Kansas City11/16/2019PaintingNoCanceled Murals to be removed because they lack 'people of color'Tufts University07/11/2019PaintingNoCanceled Prominent university president's portrait is removed from dorm to create safe spaceHarvard University03/26/2019PaintingNoCanceled Anti-Confederate art display closed due to backlashMary Baldwin University11/15/2018PaintingYesCanceled Dartmouth to move racially insensitive murals off campusDartmouth College09/26/2018PaintingNoCanceled Rudyard Kipling poem painted over by students with Maya Angelou poemUniversity of Manchester07/21/2018PaintingNoCanceled University removes artist's work over claims of sexual misconduct with his subjectsSeattle University01/29/2018PaintingNoCanceled German university removes 'sexist' poem display after student complaintsAlice Salomon University01/25/2018PaintingNoCanceled Yale removes white men’s portraits from hall to promote diversityYale University11/09/2017PaintingNoCanceled UGA group removes portrait of Robert E. LeeUniversity of Georgia08/25/2017PaintingYesCanceled English school to replace portraits of its founders with diversity wallKings College London07/17/2017PaintingNoCanceled University replaces Shakespeare portrait with collage of 88 diverse creatorsUniversity of Pennsylvania12/23/2016PaintingNoCanceled Anti-Trump art exhibit canceled when activists were offendedSalem State University11/29/2016PaintingNoCanceled UW-Stout’s frontier paintings – deemed ‘harmful’ – now slated for ‘controlled’ campus roomsUniversity of Wisconsin Stout08/06/2016PaintingNoCanceled Princeton removes Woodrow Wilson photo from dining hall wallPrinceton University04/27/2016PaintingNoCanceled One student calls mural of gun shooting flowers 'emotionally triggering’ — artist paints over itPitzer College04/25/2016PaintingNoCanceled University removes portrait of Leonidas Polk 'Sword over the Gown' portrait from Convocation HallSewanee: The University of the South03/22/2016PaintingYesCanceled Paintings of John C. Calhoun to be taken down from college named after himYale University01/23/2016PaintingYesCanceled College removes Cecil Rhodes portrait over concerns of 'colonialism'University of Oxford Oriel College12/19/2015PaintingNoCanceled Marquette removes mural with quotes from convicted cop killerMarquette University05/18/2015PaintingNoCanceled IncidentSchool NameDateTargetConfederate?Protested/Canceled?
