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BALTIMORE — Sixteen months after making global headlines with an announcement that founder Johns Hopkins owned slaves, Johns Hopkins University has updated a biography of the 19th-century business tycoon on its website, revising the language in what a university official described as “minor edits” to the information about Hopkins’ relationship…

Harriet Tubman was barely 5 feet tall and didn’t have a dime to her name.

In Harvard’s pledge to atone for its ties to slavery, it identified dozens of people who were enslaved by the university’s first leaders and faculty members

Fast food chain under pressure to join the Fair Food Program as several cases of what has been called modern day slavery on farms show the need for corporations to end these abuses

One protester said: ‘We want reparations now. The Queen of England needs to apologise for slavery.’

The new endeavour by the Anti-Slavery Collective, founded by the royal and her friend, will feature guests ‘helping to combat modern slavery’

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Harvard University is earmarking $100 million to study and make amends for its history of and ties to slavery, as well as the perpetuation of racist eugenics by some of its past faculty. The school’s president, Lawrence S. Bacow, announced the fund in a letter on Tuesday.

Report by oldest US university lays out history of slavery on campus and its role in perpetuating racial oppression.

Harvard University is vowing to spend $100 million to research and atone for its ties with slavery

"Harvard benefited from and in some ways perpetuated practices that were profoundly immoral."