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“#Colleges pushed anew for reparations for slavery, racism<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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PROVIDENCE, R.I. \u2014 For Brown University students, the Ivy League college\u2019s next step in its yearslong quest to atone for its legacy of slavery is clear: Pay up.<\/p>\n

Nearly two decades after the Providence, Rhode Island, institution launched its much-lauded reckoning, undergraduate students this spring\u00a0voted overwhelmingly<\/a>\u00a0for the university to identify the descendants of slaves that worked on campus and begin paying them reparations.<\/p>\n

At the University of Georgia, community activists want the school to contribute to Athens\u2019 efforts to atone for an urban renewal project that destroyed a Black community in the 1960s to make way for college dorms.<\/p>\n

And at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., there\u2019s growing dissatisfaction among some slave descendants about the Catholic institution\u2019s\u00a0pioneering reparations efforts.<\/a><\/p>\n

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 \u2014 from colonial-era slavery to more recent campus expansion projects that have pushed out entire communities of color.<\/p>\n

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Shepard Thomas, a recent Georgetown University graduate and a descendant of slaves sold by Jesuits to keep the school open, poses for a portrait on the campus in Washington on Thursday, May 6, 2021.<\/figcaption>
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\u201cThere\u2019s been a shift in America,\u201d said Jason Carroll, who was student council president during the spring referendum at Brown University. \u201cWe\u2019re at a different place. Just a few years ago, it was controversial to say \u2018Black Lives Matter.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

The 22-year-old Maryland native, who graduated this month, argues Brown has taken nearly every conceivable step to atone for its past \u2014 save for making slave descendants whole.<\/p>\n

The school released an exhaustive\u00a0historical report<\/a>\u00a0in 2006 and followed it up with the dedication of a\u00a0slavery memorial<\/a>\u00a0in 2014, among other efforts. An \u201cAnti-Black Racism\u201d\u00a0task force\u00a0<\/a>is expected to deliver recommendations soon for how the school can further promote racial equity. But university spokesperson Brian Clark stressed it\u2019s not clear whether the panel, which was formed following last summer\u2019s racial unrest, will address reparations.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s real trauma and pain here,\u201d said Carroll, who is descended from Carolina slaves. \u201cThis shouldn\u2019t just be an academic question. There are real families that have been burdened and harmed by this \u2014 and probably still are.\u201d<\/p>\n

Students at Harvard are\u00a0similarly calling<\/a>\u00a0for reparations after years of headline-grabbing announcements from the school, including dropping the\u00a0law school emblem<\/a>, which was derived from the crest of a slave-owning family. A\u00a0panel\u00a0<\/a>looking at the university\u2019s slave legacy plans to release its findings and recommendations later this year.<\/p>\n

At the University of Chicago, students are frustrated that the university continues to distance itself from its slavery ties, even as it touts efforts to advance racial equity and justice, said Caine Jordan, a graduate student who co-authored a recent report on the school\u2019s fraught racial history.<\/p>\n

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Cauline Yates, descendant of one of Thomas Jefferson\u2019s slave mistresses, looks over names inscribed in the walls of the Memorial to Enslaved Laborers at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Va., Thursday, May 6, 2021.<\/figcaption>
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Last year, the university\u00a0removed markers<\/a>\u00a0honoring U.S. Sen. Stephen Douglas, but maintained the Mississippi slave plantation owner donated land to an older version of the school and had \u201c\u00a0no connection<\/a>\u00a0\u201d to the current one.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll of it rings hollow if you\u2019re founded on Black pain, and you\u2019re not willing to acknowledge that,\u201d Jordan said.<\/p>\n

A university spokesperson declined to respond, but said University President Robert Zimmer will provide an update soon on the school\u2019s racial equity efforts.<\/p>\n

In Athens, Georgia, students and community groups complain the University of Georgia has largely stayed silent on the city\u2019s recent efforts to atone for the displacement of some 50 Black families to make way for new dorms for the school in the 1960s.<\/p>\n

Earlier this year, Mayor Kelly Girtz signed a\u00a0resolution acknowledging<\/a>\u00a0the taking of the homes under eminent domain, and setting into motion a process to provide \u201cequitable redress.\u201d Student groups\u00a0rallied Wednesday<\/a>\u00a0to call attention to the issue, among other racial justice\u00a0demands<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cUGA has got to do more. It\u2019s got to come to the table and acknowledge what it did,\u201d said Hattie Whitehead Thomas, a 72-year-old Athens resident who grew up in the destroyed Linnentown neighborhood.<\/p>\n

The university responded in part that the dorms have housed tens of thousands of students \u201cfrom all races and socioeconomic backgrounds \u2014 providing those students with the transformational benefits of a higher education.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Cauline Yates, descendant of one of Thomas Jefferson\u2019s slave mistresses, points out names inscribed in the walls of the Memorial to Enslaved Laborers at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Va., Thursday, May 6, 2021.<\/figcaption>
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In Virginia, a\u00a0new law<\/a>\u00a0mandates the state\u2019s five public colleges provide \u201ctangible benefits\u201d for slave descendants.<\/p>\n

Cauline Yates, a descendant of one of Thomas Jefferson\u2019s slaves, said she hopes the law compels the flagship University of Virginia, which Jefferson founded, to provide academic scholarships and economic development projects for descendants.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s time for them to stand up and honor our ancestors,\u201d said the 67-year-old Charlottesville resident, who works at the university and co-founded the advocacy group Descendants of Enslaved Communities at UVA.<\/p>\n

Brian Coy, a university spokesperson, said it\u2019s premature to say how UVA will meet the new reparations requirement. But he noted the school has already met the first provision of the law \u2014 to honor and identify the slaves \u2014 with its Memorial to Enslaved Laborers\u00a0dedicated\u00a0<\/a>last month.<\/p>\n

Back at Georgetown, the Jesuit university\u2019s reparations efforts are meant to atone for the local Jesuit province selling around 272 slaves to settle the school\u2019s debts in the 1800s.<\/p>\n

Ruth McBain, a Georgetown spokesperson, said the university hopes to award the first grants from a new $400,000-a-year fund for\u00a0community-based projects<\/a>\u00a0benefiting slave descendants sometime this year, and will work with the campus and descendant communities on that effort.<\/p>\n

The recent launch of a $1 billion \u201c\u00a0racial reconciliation<\/a>\u00a0\u201d foundation by the Jesuit order that founded the university is another \u201cimportant step in building trust and partnership\u201d with the descendant community, she added.<\/p>\n

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Hattie Whitehead Thomas poses for a portrait on the campus of the University of Georgia in Athens, Ga., on Thursday, May 6, 2021.<\/figcaption>
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But one of the main concerns among descendants and students is how committed funds will be spent \u2014 and whether descendants will truly have adequate say in the process \u2014 according to Shepard Thomas, who graduated from Georgetown last year and was among the first to benefit from the school\u2019s new legacy admission status for descendants of the 272.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe fear is that the university will use these funds for their own purposes,\u201d the 23-year-old New Orleans native said. \u201cThe university is trying to control the narrative, and we\u2019re trying to prevent that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Davarian Baldwin, an American studies professor at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, isn\u2019t optimistic many colleges will ultimately meet the demands of students and activists, even with the renewed activism.<\/p>\n

\u201cUniversities will do as little as they can get away with,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Indeed, at Brown, university leaders have\u00a0long touted<\/a>\u00a0the 2007 launch of an endowment to benefit the Providence public school system as a key part of its slavery atonement.<\/p>\n

But the university only\u00a0fully funded its<\/a>\u00a0$10 million pledge to the troubled, state-run school district last year after the mayor and others complained.<\/p>\n

Carroll also argues the effort, while laudable, has nothing to do with compensating Black communities for slavery. The school district, after all, is overwhelmingly Latino.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s not really a solution,\u201d he said. \u201cIn a way, it\u2019s even more insulting.\u201d\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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