{"id":437780,"date":"2022-04-26T20:34:54","date_gmt":"2022-04-26T17:34:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/harvard-sets-up-100m-endowment-fund-for-slavery-reparations\/"},"modified":"2022-04-26T20:34:54","modified_gmt":"2022-04-26T17:34:54","slug":"harvard-sets-up-100m-endowment-fund-for-slavery-reparations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/harvard-sets-up-100m-endowment-fund-for-slavery-reparations\/","title":{"rendered":"#Harvard sets up $100M endowment fund for slavery reparations"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a284c7828a37\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a284c7828a37\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/harvard-sets-up-100m-endowment-fund-for-slavery-reparations\/#%E2%80%9CHarvard_sets_up_100M_endowment_fund_for_slavery_reparations%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Harvard sets up $100M endowment fund for slavery reparations&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CHarvard_sets_up_100M_endowment_fund_for_slavery_reparations%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Harvard sets up $100M endowment fund for slavery reparations&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>April 26 \u2013\u00a0Harvard\u00a0University is setting aside $100\u00a0million\u00a0for an\u00a0endowment\u00a0fund\u00a0and other measures to close the educational, <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social<\/a> and economic gaps that are legacies of\u00a0slavery\u00a0and racism, according to an email the university\u2019s president sent to all students, faculty and staff on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The email from\u00a0Harvard\u00a0President Lawrence Bacow included a link to a 100-page report by his university\u2019s 14-member Committee on\u00a0Harvard\u00a0and the Legacy of\u00a0Slavery. The panel was chaired by Tomiko Brown-Nagin, a legal historian and constitutional law expert who is dean of\u00a0Harvard\u2019s interdisciplinary Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. The email and the report were released to Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>The move comes amid a wider conversation about redressing the impacts of centuries of\u00a0slavery, discrimination and racism. Some people have called for financial or other\u00a0reparations.<\/p>\n<p>The report laid out a history of slaves toiling on the campus and of the university benefiting from the slave trade and industries linked to\u00a0slavery\u00a0after\u00a0slavery\u00a0was outlawed in Massachusetts in 1783 \u2013 147 years after\u00a0Harvard\u2019s founding. The report also documents\u00a0Harvard\u00a0excluding Black students and its scholars advocating racism.<\/p>\n<p>While\u00a0Harvard\u00a0had notable figures among abolitionists and in the civil rights movement, the report said, \u201cthe nation\u2019s oldest institution of higher education \u2026 helped to perpetuate the era\u2019s racial oppression and exploitation.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/Lawrence-bacow.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Harvard President Lawrence Bacow \" class=\"wp-image-22040889\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/Lawrence-bacow.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2048 2048w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/Lawrence-bacow.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/Lawrence-bacow.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/Lawrence-bacow.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>The email from Harvard President Lawrence Bacow (pictured) included a link to a 100-page report by his university\u2019s 14-member Committee on Harvard and the Legacy of Slavery. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">REUTERS<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The report\u2019s authors recommended offering descendants of people enslaved at\u00a0Harvard\u00a0educational and other support so they \u201ccan recover their histories, tell their stories, and pursue empowering knowledge.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Other recommendations included that the Ivy League school\u00a0fund\u00a0summer programs to bring students and faculty from long underfunded historically Black colleges and universities to\u00a0Harvard, and to send\u00a0Harvard\u00a0students and faculty to the institutions known as HBCUs, such as Howard University.<\/p>\n<p>In his email,\u00a0Harvard\u00a0President Bacow said a committee would explore transforming the recommendations into action and that a university governing board had authorized $100\u00a0million\u00a0for implementation, with some of the\u00a0funds held in an\u00a0endowment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSlavery\u00a0and its legacy have been a part of American life for more than 400 years,\u201d Bacow wrote. \u201cThe work of further redressing its persistent effects will require our sustained and ambitious efforts for years to come.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Other U.S. institutions of higher learning have created\u00a0funds in recent years to address legacies of\u00a0slavery. 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