Harvard

Harvard Creates Fund to Redress Its Ties to Slavery

Har­vard Uni­ver­si­ty is com­mit­ting $100 mil­lion to study and redress its ties to slav­ery, the university’s pres­i­dent announced Tues­day, and with that mon­ey will cre­ate an endowed “Lega­cy of Slav­ery Fund,” which will con­tin­ue research­ing and memo­ri­al­iz­ing that his­to­ry, work­ing with descen­dants of Black and Native Amer­i­can peo­ple enslaved at Har­vard, as well as their…