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Georgetown University offers reconciliation for slave past
Georgetown University has come clean about its history with the slave trade . Will other schools step up and do more?
By Warren Olney • • 1 min readGeorgetown University has come clean about its history with the slave trade. Will other schools step up and do more?
Georgetown University has not just documented its unsavory past, it's offering assistance to the descendants of slaves it sold to Southern plantations. Is that the same as "reparations?" What about other institutions involved in the trade?
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Warren Olney
former KCRW broadcaster
Andrea Brody
Senior Producer, KCRW's Life Examined and To the Point podcast
Paul von Zielbauer
Co-founder of Geezer magazine, former producer for To the Point and Which Way LA?; former reporter for the New York Times
Jenny Hamel
KCRW
Adam Rothman
Georgetown University
Brenda Stevenson
professor of history and African American studies at UCLA; author of “The Contested Murder of Latasha Harlins: Justice, Gender, and the Origins of the LA Riots”
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