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Nearly a year after the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police sparked the latest national reckoning on racism, student and community activists from New England to the Deep South are demanding institutions take more ambitious steps to atone for past sins.
6 hours ago in Features Brown University graduate Jason Carroll, a Maryland native whose ancestors were slaves in the Carolinas, stands for a portrait on the Brown campus in Providence, R.I., on Tuesday, May 4, 2021, near University Hall, background, that was constructed in part using slave labor. “There’s real trauma and pain here,” says Carroll. “This shouldn’t just be an academic question. There are real families that have been burdened and harmed by this — and probably still are.” (AP Photo/Steven Senne) Photo: Associated Press By PHILIP MARCE...
Students and activists from New England to the Deep South are calling on higher education institutions to make reparations for colonial-era slavery as well as more recent campus expansion projects that have displaced communities of color.
Universities across US push to begin paying reparations for slavery, racism By PHILIP MARCELO The Associated Press,Updated May 13, 2021, 3:13 a.m. Email to a Friend Brown University recent graduate Jason Carroll, a Maryland native whose ancestors were slaves in the Carolinas.Steven Senne/Associated Press PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) â For Brown University students, the Ivy League collegeâs 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 ...
Email PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — 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 destro...