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Reparations

Joe Stewart and Patricia Bayonne-Johnson, both descendants of people sold as slaves by Georgetown University, visit the school on September 1, 2016 in Washington, D.C.

Lessons from South Africa as Georgetown attempts reparations for slavery

Justice

One of the first black deans at a university in South Africa says Georgetown’s decision to offer preferred admission to descendants of slaves is “beautiful” — but only the beginning of a process.

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