Lib: Harvard’s $100M for slavery ties ‘way too low’

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FIRST ON FOX: New York Times Magazine’s 1619 Project author Nikole Hannah Jones said Saturday that Harvard University’s $100 million pledge to attempt to atone for its historic ties to slavery is “way too low.“Hannah-Jones made the comments during the National Antiracist Book Festival hosted by Boston University’s Center for Antiracist Research.Harvard University President Lawrence Bacow, in a Washington Post op-ed co-authored with Chair of the Presidential Initiative on Harvard and the Legacy of Slavery and Dean of Harvard University’s Radcliffe Institute Tomiko Brown-Nagin, announced Tuesday that the Ivy League college will spend $100 million to study its ties to slavery, including an endowment “to support these efforts in perpetuity.” TOP 10 MISLEADING AND OUTRAGEOUS STATEMENTS FROM NYT’S NIKOLE HANNAH-JONES
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(AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)The funding will also support confronting “continuing inequities — tangible legacies of slavery — affecting communities in the United States and in the Caribbean, to which New England’s slavery economies were closely tied,” the pair stated.The report did not recommend direct financial reparations.“We are not naive. This is an …

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