Acknowledgement & atonement: DePaul apologizes for Vincentian history of slaveholding
Minister Jené A. Colvin, from DePaul’s Division of Mission and Ministry, said her twice-removed great grandmother Eliza Oakley lived to be 95. Born in 1919, Oakley lived when Jim Crow laws were in place and Black Americans constantly faced the threat of lynchings. “Very often, people imagine slavery in the United States as something that...
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