Rutgers

New Jersey Seminary to Pay $27 Million in Reparations for Ties to Slavery

Stacy M. Brown NNPA Newswire CorrespondentNovember 7, 2019

“The Seminary’s ties to slavery are a part of our story,” Barnes stated. “It is important to acknowledge that our founders were entangled with slavery and could not envision a fully integrated society. We did not want to shy away from the uncomfortable part of our history and the difficult conversations that revealing the truth would produce.”

Larry Aubry Opinion

Confronting Academia’s Ties to Slavery and Reparations

Larry AubryFebruary 28, 2019

Reparations for the descendants of African slaves has been talked about ad infinitum, yet there has been virtually no legislative action taken to make this happen. (Congressman John Conyers could not even to get a reparations bill out of committee for more than twenty years—to simply do a study on reparations.) Today’s column summarizes a “major” conference at Harvard University about slavery, universities and reparations. A New York Times article by Jennifer Schussler, Confronting Academia’s Ties to Slavery, recaps the conference.