Georgetown

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  9/1/2020
  

  John Thompson Led Black America’s Basketball Team

  Today's racial justice activism by prominent Black athletes has roots in the influence of the late Georgetown basketball coach John Thompson. 

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  10/30/19
  

  Is Georgetown’s $400,000-a-Year Plan to Aid Slave Descendants Enough?

  University officials described the decision as one step in a dialogue with the descendants, who are seeking $1 billion.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  8/2/2019
  

  The Nuns Who Bought and Sold Human Beings

  America’s nuns are beginning to confront their ties to slavery, but it’s still a long road to repentance.

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• SOURCE: AP
  6/19/19
  

  GU272 Memory Project Launches on Juneteenth

  In addition to documents, photographs and the indexed genealogies of thousands of descendants, the project includes recorded interviews with dozens of living descendants.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/28/19
  

  The centuries-long fight for reparations

  by Ana Lucia Araujo

  There is a long and old tradition of black men and women demanding restitution for the time they were enslaved.

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• SOURCE: Slate
  4/12/19
  

  Georgetown Students Vote to Add Fee for Slavery Reparations to Tuition

  if approved by the university, it will be the first time an American university financially addresses its past as a slave-owning institution.

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• SOURCE: NPR
  4-28-17
  

  Who Gains and Who's Left Out of Georgetown's Reparations Plan

  Georgetown University says it will try to atone to the descendants of slaves sold more than a century ago. One concrete step is "preferential admissions" for descendants, but it doesn't help everyone.

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• SOURCE: The Root
  3-25-17
  

  Black Georgetown Employee Found Out the School Sold His Great-Great-Great Grandmother

  “Now I work here—to realize that this is my history, this is my story, blows me away,” said Alexander, an executive assistant in Georgetown’s office of technology commercialization. “I have been really emotional as I learned about my ties to the university.”

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  1-10-17
  

  Georgetown professor says whites should keep ‘individual reparations account’

  Professor Michael Eric Dyson suggested donating to the United Negro College Fund or paying “the black person who cuts your grass double what you might ordinarily pay.”

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• 9-18-16
  

  Congratulations Georgetown. Now It’s Time to Own Up to the Racist History of the Catholic Church.

  by Shannen Dee Williams

  The Catholic Church was the largest corporate slaveholder in the Americas. But this history is barely acknowledged.

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• SOURCE: The Hoya
  9-9-16
  

  Georgetown student newspaper reports descendants of slaves want $1 billion fund

  A group of descendants of the 272 slaves sold by Georgetown University in 1838 is seeking to establish a $1 billion foundation in partnership with the university and the Jesuits of Maryland to fund scholarships for descendants.

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• SOURCE: The Chronicle of Higher Education
  9-2-16
  

  Georgetown’s Plan Spurs Hopes for a Shift in How Universities Confront Ties to Slavery

  No other university has given descendants of its slaves legacy status in the admission process.

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• SOURCE: The Chronicle of Higher Education
  9-1-16
  

  Georgetown Will Give Admissions Preferences to Descendants of Slaves It Sold

  In an effort to atone for its profit off the sale of 272 slaves almost two centuries ago, Georgetown University will, among other things, give preferential treatment in the admissions process to descendants of those slaves.

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• SOURCE: The Chronicle of Higher Education
  6-21-16
  

  Historians of slavery are now looking at their own institutions

  That’s a change from the past when this kind of research was largely ignored.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  6-14-16
  

  Moving to Make Amends, Georgetown President Meets With Descendant of Slaves

  More than a century after Georgetown University used some of the profits from the sale of 272 enslaved African-Americans to help ensure its survival, John J. DeGioia, the university’s president, took a first step on Monday toward making amends to their descendants.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  4-16-16
  

  272 Slaves Were Sold to Save Georgetown. What Does It Owe Their Descendants?

  In 1838, the Jesuit priests who ran the country’s top Catholic university needed money to keep it alive. Now comes the task of making amends.

• SOURCE: WickedLocal
  1-24-13
  

  Georgetown historian appraises pieces of JFK's life

  Georgetown — The estate of David Powers Sr., the former special assistant of President John F. Kennedy, is up for auction and a Georgetown historian is right in the middle of it. McInnis Auctions Gallery in Amesbury will host a "Presidential Auction" at their gallery on Sunday, Feb. 17, selling off a massive collection of items from the Kennedy years.... Daniel Meader of Georgetown, the in-house historian for McInnis Auctions, has spent about five months sorting the massive collection and organizing it into lots. The auction house heard from David Powers, Jr., the son of the late David Powers, who was looking for an auction house to handle an enormous amount of historical Kennedy items....