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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
imageStudents 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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