.thereidout Blog: A new report on Harvard's legacy of slavery shows why policies like the ones the Supreme Court seems ready to gut exist.
wasn't the only way colleges and universities have benefited from slavery.
“[F]inancial entanglements and intellectual leadership that lent universities’ prestige to theories of racial hierarchy have also resulted in lasting harm,” according to the report. “Each of these forms of culpability — direct participation, financial ties, intellectual leadership, and discrimination — applies to Harvard, where the routine admission of descendants of slavery is a relatively recent phenomenon in a 385-year history.”
Harvard’s push for accountability here comes at a precarious time for its efforts to promote equality and fair access. The Supreme Court, packed with conservative justices confirmed during Donald Trump’s presidency, seems primed to ban universities from considering race during the admissions process — a practice meant to help promote diversity.
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