(CNN) Over a decade ago, Brown University released a report with findings on its ties to slavery, and now undergraduate students have voted in support of reparations for descendants of enslaved people. A total of 2,024 students voted when the final tally was taken Friday, and over 80% voted in support of reparations for descendants. The co-presidents of Brown's Black Student Union, Lauren Wilson and Daneva Moncrieffe, echoed Carroll's sentiments to CNN. "Confronting questions of reparations and institutional reckoning with connections to the transatlantic slave trade has a deep history at Brown," university spokesman Brian Clark said. Other universities have followed the same pathGeorgetown University voted in 2019 to institute a reparations fund for the descendants of slaves who were sold.

Source: CNN April 01, 2021 00:22 UTC