WASHINGTON, DC -- 4/1/19 -- Dr. Marcia Chatelain, an Associate Professor of History and African American Studies and Dr. Adam Rothman, an Associate Professor of History, are both active in the history and accountability of the institution as it regards the GU272 in front of Healy Hall.
Georgetown University has been dealing publicly with the legacy of slavery and its impact on the institution. Georgetown sold enslaved people to benefit the institution and has been slow to memorialize burial sites. Now descendants of the 272 African-Americans sold to Louisiana have been given legacy status as part of a reparations package, but those students as well as other student activists and faculty are still critical and calling on the university to do more.…by André Chung #_AC20132