Harvard Faces Its Legacy Of Slavery

By Crooked Media

What A Day

27/04/22·20m 17s

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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