Universities across US push to begin paying reparations for slavery, racism
By PHILIP MARCELO The Associated Press,Updated May 13, 2021, 3:13 a.m.
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Brown University recent graduate Jason Carroll, a Maryland native whose ancestors were slaves in the Carolinas.Steven Senne/Associated Press
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) â For Brown University students, the Ivy League collegeâs next step in its yearslong quest to atone for its legacy of slavery is clear: Pay up.
Nearly two decades after the Providence, Rhode Island, institution launched its much-lauded reckoning, undergraduate students this spring voted overwhelmingly for the university to identify the descendants of slaves that worked on campus and begin paying them reparations.