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Search Begins for Librarian To Oversee Collections on Slavery

By Dustin Hartuv September 4, 2019

Georgetown University began a search for candidates to work as the librarian for collections on slavery, memory and reconciliation, a position established to support the university’s engagement with...

EDITORIAL: Form Descendant-Led Foundation

By Editorial Board February 9, 2018

Georgetown University would have folded if not for the sale of 272 slaves in 1838. Today, the university must take extraordinary steps to grapple with its past. The university was kept financially afloat...

SINGH & BEAUSOLEIL: An Ode to the Underappreciated at Georgetown

SINGH & BEAUSOLEIL: An Ode to the Underappreciated at Georgetown

By Hashwinder Singh and Khendrick Beausoleil August 13, 2017

While writing this, our final column of the summer, we recognized that in describing our experiences as students of color, we have been forced to reflect upon the highs and lows of our freshman year at...

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VIEWPOINT: Personal Ties Forge Community

By Ayodele Aruleba May 19, 2017

Georgetown reminds me to always check the mail. However thin the envelope might have been, its contents have led me to this moment today. Since making my decision to attend Georgetown, there have been...

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President John J. DeGioia discussed Georgetowns legacy of slavery, the universitys role in national politics, and the mens basketball program.

Q&A: DeGioia Talks Georgetown’s Role in Politics, Reconciliation

By Toby Hung April 12, 2017

As the academic year comes to an end, The Hoya sat down with University President John J. DeGioia yesterday to discuss Georgetown’s role in today’s political landscape, the process of reconciling...

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University President John J. DeGioia met with Patricia Bayonne Johnson, a descendant of one of the 272 slaves sold by Georgetown to a Louisiana plantation in 1838, in Spokane, Wash., on Monday, June 13.

In a 1st, DeGioia Meets With Descendant of Slaves Sold by Georgetown in 1838

By Ian Scoville June 30, 2016

In a historic step forward to reconcile with Georgetown’s slaveholding history, University President John J. DeGioia met with Patricia Bayonne-Johnson, a descendant of one of the 272 slaves sold...

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University Recognizes Interim Name Changes

By Syed Humza Moinuddin December 13, 2015

Georgetown University President John J. DeGioia and the Working Group on Slavery, Memory and Reconciliation held a ceremony and reception to recognize the interim naming of Freedom Hall and Remembrance...

Student Activists Sit-In Outside DeGioias Office

Student Activists Sit-In Outside DeGioia’s Office

By Toby Hung November 13, 2015

Students activists began staging a sit-in outside the office of University President John J. DeGioia today at 9 a.m. to pressure the administration into meeting a series of demands that address racial injustice...

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