Antigua wants reparations from Harvard

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An American landowner who profited off enslaved people in Antigua helped establish Harvard Law School. Now, Antigua’s prime minister wants the school to financially compensate the ancestors of the enslaved. The World’s Rupa Shenoy explains the newest development of the reparations debate involving Harvard University.  

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