Princeton seminary students are asking for reparations for school's role in slavery - Laredo Morning Times"Princeton Theological Seminary last year released a report describing its founders' and early faculty's ties to slavery.
Now, some of its students want the school to take it a step further and provide reparations as financial restitution for its role in the slave trade.
A group of black seminarians have collected more than 400 signatures in an online petition calling on the New Jersey school to "make amends" by setting aside $5.3 million annually - or 15 percent of what the seminary uses from the school's endowment for its operating expenses - to fund tuition grants for black students and establish a Black Church Studies program..."
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