by lindaoppenheim | May 26, 2019 | Podcast
David Remnick, editor of the New Yorker magazine, interviews Ta-Nehisi-Coates, Susan B. Glasser, and others about how reparations has become a major focus in the 2020 Democratic primary contest and how Georgetown University students have chosen to take reparations...
by lindaoppenheim | Apr 12, 2019 | News, Video
If you ask yourself “How can I contribute to reparations for slavery, Jim Crow, mass incarceration, etc.?”, look to these Georgetown University students for an example and listen to the counter-proposal by William A. Darity, Jr., leading scholar on...
by lindaoppenheim | Aug 31, 2017 | Article
Mélisande Short-Colomb, whose ancestors were among the 272 slaves Georgetown priests had sold in 1838 to help pay off the university’s debts, is now enrolled as a student at the university. Read the full article by clicking here.
by lindaoppenheim | Apr 19, 2017 | News, Video
In a special ceremony Tuesday morning, the Jesuit order that founded Georgetown University formally apologized to the descendants of 272 slaves sold in 1838 to pay off the university’s debts.
by lindaoppenheim | Apr 14, 2017 | News, Uncategorized
Georgetown University announced the renaming of a building, which comes with input from the descendant community and at the recommendation of Georgetown’s Working Group on Slavery, Memory, and Reconciliation to honor the lives of the 272 enslaved women, children and...
