March 9, 2007

Brown U. Responds to Slave Report

By DAVID GLENN

Declaring that "the impact of slavery and segregation reaches into every facet of modern life," administrators at Brown University have announced several new institutional projects, including programs to assist local public schools and a possible new research center on slavery and its legacies.

Many of the newly announced projects were recommended last fall by a Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice, created to assess the university's founders' entanglements with the slave trade

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