G.U. Launches $400,000 Annual Fund to Support Descendants of the Enslaved  

February 6, 2023

Georgetown University has created a new fund that will award $400,000 annually to community-based projects that can impact the descendants of the men, women and children enslaved on Jesuit plantations […]

Profs & Pints DC: Reconsidering Reparations

January 3, 2022

Profs and Pints DC presents: “Reconsidering Reparations,” on a future-oriented approach to remedying past injustice, with Olúfemi O. Táíwò, assistant professor of political philosophy and ethics at Georgetown University and […]

GU272: Advocating for Descendants of the Enslaved

February 12, 2020

In 1838, the Jesuits of Maryland sold 272 enslaved persons to plantations in Louisiana — in part to pay off debts for the struggling Georgetown College in Washington, D.C. It […]