Brown University undergraduates vote for reparations for descendants of enslaved people CNN 10 hrs ago By Lauren M. Johnson, CNN © Steven Senne/AP Passers-by walk along a path on the campus of Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island.
Over a decade ago, Brown University released a report with findings on its ties to slavery, and now undergraduate students have voted in support of reparations for descendants of enslaved people.
The vote comes at the recommendation of Undergraduate Council of Students (UCS) President Jason Carroll, who is himself a descendant on both sides.
Carroll told CNN he wrote a referendum to call upon the university to take action on the earlier report and used the document to manifest two questions that were voted on by the underclassman.
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