More US colleges feel heat amid slave reparations calls

A growing number of universities in the United States are examining their links to the transatlantic slave trade and the wealth they acquired from it, as student movements call on them to offer financial reparations to the descendants of slaves and use taxes and endowment funds to help local communities.

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