Georgetown Reparations

WASHINGTON, DC -- 4/1/19 -- From left: Grad student Elizabeth Thomas, her brother, Shepard Thomas, a junior, and Mélisande Short-Colomb, a junior, are descendants of the GU272 stand outside Anne Marie Becraft 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 #_AC20008

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WASHINGTON, DC -- 4/1/19 -- From left: Grad student Elizabeth Thomas, her brother, Shepard Thomas, a junior, and Mélisande Short-Colomb, a junior, are descendants of the GU272 stand outside Anne Marie Becraft Hall.<br />
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 #_AC20008