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Where Harvard’s Legacy of Slavery Lives Today | News | The Harvard Crimson

Harvard, the oldest college in America, has made another effort to redress its ugly past. The ivy league institution has set up a multimillion-dollar fund

Here are Five Key Findings From Harvard’s Landmark Report on its Ties to Slavery | News | The Harvard Crimson

Harvard details its entanglements with slavery and its plans for redress

Harvard University has pledged to set aside $100 million and other measures as reparations for the victims of slavery that the educational institution benefitted from historically. The announcement came after a 100-page report found that staff of the university owned slaves.

The university has committed $100 million, to create an endowed fund to “redress” past wrongs. Read more at Boston.com.

Harvard University issued a 130-page report investigating its ties to slavery, and its legacy. Here are the key findings.

Self-Reliance vs. Self-Esteem - Schools once embraced Emerson’s ideal of self-reliance, but modern educators have turned that core American virtue upside down.

 

Within the very exclusive and puritan Yale University, every year 15 children of very wealthy families are co-opted. They are members of a secret association of ghoulish rites: Skulls and Bones. Throughout their lives, they support and assist each other in view of the democratic flightiness of the masses they detest.