Apr 28, 2022, 1:08 PM
(From Chronicle of Higher Education) Harvard University is dedicating $100 million to create a fund to research and redress its "extensive entanglements with slavery," university President Lawrence Bacow said earlier this week. The message was accompanied by a 134-page report that offers painstaking details about Harvard’s direct, financial, and intellectual ties to slavery over several centuries.
Harvard's announcement comes as other universities across the nation attempt to reckon with their complicity with slavery. Universities Studying Slavery, a consortium of 94 schools founded by and based at the University of Virginia, meets twice yearly to further efforts at scholarship and atonement. Leaders at Georgetown University have also pledged $100 million for racial reconciliation and to benefit descendants of enslaved people at the university.
More at Chronicle of Higher Education
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