America’s prestigious Harvard University announced it will commit $100 million to redress its role in slavery, as more US institutions move toward reparations for historical injustices.
Harvard says it was putting the money into a fund to help tackle the educational and social gaps caused by the legacies of the slave trade and racism.
It also recommended identifying and supporting direct descendants of Black and Native American enslaved individuals who laboured on Harvard’s campus and who were enslaved by previous Harvard leaders.
Harvard president Lawrence Bacow says Harvard benefited from and in some ways perpetuated practices that were profoundly immoral.