Georgetown University

In “The 272,” Rachel L. Swarns sets out how the country’s first Catholic university profited from the sale of enslaved people.

Because the 19th-century college president appeared white, he was able to climb the ladder of the Jesuit community.

The school has decided how much money we’re owed in reparations.

Swarns’s book about a sale of enslaved people by Jesuit priests to save Georgetown University reminds us that the legacy of slavery is the legacy of resistance.

In 1838, leaders of the Catholic order faced opposition from their own priests, but pressed forward with the sale of 272 human beings anyway.

Despite extensive historiography, most people are not aware that the Society of Jesus owned people.

At the local level, reparations for slavery are already being paid all over the country.

Reparations for African-Americans has been a hot topic on the presidential campaign trail, but the debate goes back centuries.

It's time to acknowledge that White Catholics’ American dream was built on profits plundered from black women, men, and children.

They’re invested in legal education, creating an originalist industrial complex with outsize influence.

Will the Black body ever have the opportunity to rest in peace?

And how black activists won the support of Democratic candidates.

What does the institution owe the descendants of slaves?

The argument over renaming Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School is neither trivial nor simple.