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Brown Report on Ties to Slavery Should Be Up This Afternoon

October 18, 2006 RSS Feed Print
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A report that could recommend Brown University pursue making monetary reparations for its role in the American slave trade should be released online today, according to the Daily Herald. Ruth Simmons, Brown's president, who is African-American, commissioned the report when she took the job in 2003. The document should be on the school's website this afternoon.

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