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Harvard Law bows to activist calls to drop slaveholder crest

CAMBRIDGE – Royall appears to be falling. Harvard Law School, which last year saw activist students demand that the institution scrub the emblem honoring the family of an early benefactor, Isaac Royall Jr., over his ownership of slaves 300 years ago, caved to pressures this week and voted to support dumping

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Harvard Law panel will review school emblem, dean says

CAMBRIDGE – Harvard Law School Dean Martha L. Minow wants a special committee of faculty and students to gather views on whether the school's seal, which features imagery from the family crest of a slaveholder benefactor, should be changed. Minow announced the panel's members and its purpose

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Harvard Law activists push new demands to redress ‘racism’

CAMBRIDGE – Days after Harvard Law School Dean Martha Minow agreed to explore demands from student activists to remove imagery from the school seal that they say is racially offensive, the same group issued fresh demands, including more financial aid for minorities, a new office of diversity and inclusion, and revamping

Cambridge

Campuses erupt as students pursue racial grievances

PRINCETON, New Jersey – A student activist group at Princeton University calling itself "The Black Justice League" may have just dealt a fatal roundhouse blow to the school's longtime connection to Woodrow Wilson, the 28th president of the U.S. and the prestigious university's 13th