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A price tag on trauma? College town weighs Black reparations
Amherst, some 90 miles from Boston, is among hundreds of communities and organizations across the country seeking to provide reparations to Black people
Professor
Edwin Driver arrived in Amherst in 1948 as one of the first Black teachers hired at a flagship state university in the country.
But the 23-year-old sociology instructor at what would become the University of Massachusetts Amherst says he was denied pay raises for decades, despite being one of its most published professors.
Driver and his wife, who was from India, also encountered roadblocks trying to buy a house in the mostly white college town. Their three children faced racism from neighbors and school officials alike.
March 10, 2021
AMHERST, Mass. (AP) Professor Edwin Driver arrived in Amherst in 1948 as one of the first Black teachers hired at a flagship state university in the country.
But the 23-year-old sociology instructor at what would become the University of Massachusetts Amherst says he was denied pay raises for decades, despite being one of its most published professors.
Driver and his wife, who was from India, also encountered roadblocks trying to buy a house in the mostly white college town. Their three children faced racism from neighbors and school officials alike.
“There’s a lot of people in Amherst that have not gotten a proper share of things,” the now 96-year-old professor emeritus said at his home in nearby South Hadley recently. “I ended up being the lowest paid professor in the department, but also its most productive.”
Dickinson Creator: Civil War-Set Season 3 Will Explore Power of Written Word
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Showrunner Alena Smith breaks down the season two finale s romantic reunion and teases the timeliness of the next set of episodes of the Apple TV+ series: How can we build a better society without being honest about how we got here.
[The following story contains spoilers for the second season of Apple TV+ s
Dickinson.]
The second season of Apple TV+ s
Dickinson ends with Hailee Steinfeld s version of the eponymous poet choosing to write only for her beloved Sue (Ella Hunt), who incidentally is still married to Emily s brother Austin (Adrian Blake Enscoe).
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