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Colleges confront their links to slavery and wrestle with how to atone for past sins

  • Written by Calvin Schermerhorn, Professor of History, Arizona State University
Colleges confront their links to slavery and wrestle with how to atone for past sinsStudents at Georgetown University protest in 2019, demanding the school make amends for its history with reparations. Michael Robinson Chavez/The Washington Post via Getty Images

Colleges and universities across the U.S. have been taking a hard look at their ties to slavery.

This isn’t an entirely new phenomenon. Back in 2006, Brown University...

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