During a recent CNN Town Hall, U.S. presidential candidates, including Bernie Sanders, Julian Castro and Marianne Williamson, were asked about their positions on reparations for the Black descendants ...

The students voted in favor of establishing a per-semester fee that would go toward a reparations fund. WASHINGTON DC – AUGUST 30: Melisande Colomb, 63, is a desendant of slaves sold by the Jesuits to ...

Georgetown University and the Jesuits have pledged $27 million in money and land donations to the descendants of 19th-century enslaved people who were sold to fund the highly prestigious institution.

Georgetown University should offer direct reparations to descendants of the 272 slaves sold in 1838 to validate the demands of African-American individuals affected by Georgetown’s legacy as a ...

Georgetown University students overwhelmingly voted to increase their tuition to pay reparations to the descendants of slaves once owned by the school. The move came as reparations are increasingly ...

(WASHINGTON) — Georgetown University could become the first college in the nation to mandate a fee to benefit descendants of slaves sold by the university nearly 200 years ago — a debate that takes ...

With the words of Martin Luther King Jr. before me, I am reminded that evil often succeeds when “moderates” do nothing. Indeed, the graduate student body has been content with a moderate role, one ...

Georgetown University announced on Tuesday it will create a fund that could generate close to $400,000 a year to benefit the descendants of slaves once sold by the university, the latest in the school ...

Students at Georgetown University voted Thursday to increase their tuition to benefit descendants of the 272 enslaved Africans that the Jesuits who ran the school sold nearly two centuries ago to ...

While commending Georgetown for creating a commission to study the issue and for coming out with a report on it, the descendants Waterhouse represents fault the school for not including them in the ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Georgetown University students are considering a fee benefiting the descendants of enslaved people sold to pay off the school’s debts, an effort that would create one of the first ...