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Category: Truth and Reconciliation
Virginia seminary sets aside $1.7 millionto pay reparations to descendants of slaves
Virginia Theological Seminary, an Episcopal seminary, says it has set aside $1.7 million to pay reparations to the descendants of slaves who worked on its campus, making it the first institution of its kind to set up a reparations fund. …
Read MoreReflecting on Our Past: The Value of Public Art, April 4, 2019
On Thursday, April 4, from 4:30 to 6:30PM, in the Friend Center, Room 101, Walter Hood, Professor and former Chair of Landscape Architecture, University of California, Berkeley and designer of a new installation about Woodrow Wilson to be constructed this…
Read MorePrinceton Seminary students ask for reparations for school’s history linked to slavery
“The Association of Black Seminarians posted a petition online earlier this month as a response to a report that detailed the seminary’s history with slavery, which was released last year. So far, the group has collected more than 400 signatures…
Read MoreSelf Tour of African American Life in Princeton Unveiled
A self-guided Heritage Tour, sponsored by the Witherspoon–Jackson Historical and Cultural Society (WJHCS) to commemorate 29 noted African American sites in Princeton, is about to become a reality. For many decades Ms. Shirley Satterfield has been conducting educational tours of the…
Read MorePrinceton needs new campus monuments
Lecturer Sean Fraga notes that “Princeton’s campus monuments aren’t truly representative of the University’s past, nor do they reflect the diversity of its student body today,” and calls for more markers of the contributions of women and enslaved African Americans…
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