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$10M: the price of slave labor.(READING BETWEEN THE HEADLINES)(Brief article)
To take responsibility for its history with slavery, Brown University is going to raise $10 million for public schools in the area. The college will also cover the tuition of graduate students who vow to work at these schools. The decision came after a report issued by a committee that had been charged in 2003 with looking at the history ...
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