By Mitti Hicks The college sold four of six of Black American Artist Hale A. Woodruff’s murals. Alabama’s first private historically Black college, Talladega College, has sold its historic collection of works by Black American artist Hale A. Woodruff amid financial troubles. The college has sold four of six of Woodruff’s murals after Board Chair Rica Lewis-Payton told the New York Times that the college was having difficulty meeting payroll soon after she took the role. Over the past year, she said she oversaw the sale of the college’s most prized possessions: Woodruff’s murals. “The result of more than a year of careful consideration and due
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