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Students Call For Colleges to Atone for Slavery Ties Through Forms of Reparations
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Left to right: Metcalf Hall (1919); Andrews Hall (1947, Thomas Mott Shaw); Miller Hall (1910, Andrews, Jacques and Rantoul of Boston).
As colleges across the country face pressure to atone for their ties to slavery, students from Rhode Island’s Brown University recently voted for the school to identify the descendants of slaves that worked on the campus and pay them reparations.
Results from the referendum show 88.61% of Brown University students supported identifying the descendants with 84.53% in favor of paying “reparations plans from other institutions of higher education like Georgetown University.”
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For Brown University students, the Ivy League college’s 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.
At the University of Georgia, community activists want the school to contribute to Athens’ efforts to atone for an urban renewal project that destroyed a Black community in the 1960s to make way for college dorms.
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