Harvard Faces Its Legacy Of Slavery
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🗓️ 27 April 2022
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Harvard University pledged $100 million to redress its ties to slavery. In an email on Tuesday, the school’s president said that the university bore “a moral responsibility to do what we can to address the persistent corrosive effects of those historical practices on individuals, on Harvard, and on our society.”
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| 0:00.0 | It's Wednesday, April 27th. I'm getting a resign. |
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| 0:36.6 | Plus the CDC says that if you have had COVID, then at this point, you are mainstream. |
| 0:42.8 | But first, Harvard University has pledged $100 million to redress its ties to slavery. |
| 0:48.6 | In an email to students, faculty and staff, the school's president said, quote, Harvard |
| 0:53.6 | benefited from and in some ways perpetuated practices that were profoundly immoral. |
| 0:58.7 | Consequently, I believe we bear a moral responsibility to do what we can to address the persistent |
| 1:03.6 | corrosive effects of those historical practices on individuals, on Harvard and on our society. |
| 1:09.0 | Yeah, so tell us a little bit more about what actually led up to this moment. |
| 1:12.1 | Yeah, so this announcement was made after a report by the university itself called Harvard |
| 1:17.0 | and the legacy of slavery was made public yesterday. |
| 1:20.7 | As you can imagine, the report chronicled how a lot of the university's founding wealth |
| 1:25.3 | came from patrons whose fortunes came directly from slave labor. |
| 1:29.5 | Many of those patrons gave their names to halls and dorms that students and staff on campus |
| 1:34.3 | are still using today. |
| 1:36.4 | The report also revealed that multiple Harvard presidents, faculty and staff enslaved |
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