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Grappling with Legacy

Emmanuel Church 42 Dearborn Street, Newport, RI, United States

When Sylvia Brown’s father handed much of his inheritance to Brown University in 1995, the gesture maintained a 300-year family philanthropic tradition. Less than a decade later, at the inaugural symposium of the University’s Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice, one speaker declared “there were no good Browns.” “Grappling with Legacy” was born of the […]