Project Description The Department of African American Studies faculties’ research expertise has led to extensive commitment to and contacts in the various communities in Atlanta. They are eager to work further with Black Atlantans to uncover the stories, the metrics, and the costs of slavery, Jim Crow, and non-post-racial America for African Americans in the……
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Emory Joins National Mellon Foundation Research Project to Address Racial Reparations
Emory scholars will work with community partners in Atlanta to assess the toll that slavery, Jim Crow and its modern iteration have taken on the Black community, then work to craft policy recommendations for reparations to address those losses.