Harvard releases report detailing its ties to slavery, plans to issue reparations

A general view of Harvard University campus is seen on April 22, 2020 in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

A committee formed by Harvard President Lawrence Bacow found that Harvard faculty and staff enslaved 70 people from the school's founding in 1636 to the banning of slavery in Massachusetts in 1783.

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