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$27M Reparations To Be Paid To Descendants Of Enslaved People Sold To Fund Georgetown University

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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.

According to CNN, the Descendants Truth & Reconciliation Foundation confirmed the gifts of $10 million from Georgetown and an additional $17 million from the Jesuits in the form of financial retribution and plantation land. Read more at www.blackenterprise.com.

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