Dave Chappelle still stands by his transphobic “Closer” comedy special, but he won’t force outraged students to face his name every day in the hallway.
The comedian announced Monday during a scheduled renaming that he would not allow his name to go above the theater at the Duke Ellington School of the Arts as planned.
Instead, he said, he would “defer” the renaming of his alma mater’s theater to emphasize “the nuance of art” as well as “my right, my freedom of artistic expression,” according to USA Today. The facility will now be called the Theater of Artistic Freedom & Expression.
