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Scottish University Will Pay $24 Million in Reparations

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Aug 14, 2019
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The University of Glasgow has made a historic step to atone for benefiting from the transatlantic slave trade. The Scottish university signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with The University of the West Indies (UWI) in which it committed £20 million ($24 million) as “reparative justice.”

The money will establish the Glasgow-Caribbean Centre for De…

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