EAST AFRICA ROAD SAFETY PROJECT GETS $3 MILLION GRANT The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) awards Georgetown professors Billy Jack and James Habyarimana a $3 million grant to expand their road safety intervention project. STUDENTS DON T-SHIRTS MADE AT ‘LIVING WAGE’ FACTORY Georgetown furthers its relationship with the Dominican Republic's Alta Gracia factory, which offers its workers a living wage, by continuing research and ordering T-shirts from the factory for New Student Orientation. ECONOMIST NAMED FIRST GLOBAL HUMAN DEVELOPMENT CHAIR Leading economist and scholar Steven Radelet receives the first endowed chair, funded by the Coca-Cola Foundation, for the master's in Global Human Development at Georgetown. IMF’s Lagarde: World Financial Growth Still Falling Short Christine Lagarde, managing director for the International Monetary Fund, told a Georgetown audience that the current level of global economic growth will be insufficient to address the world's most complex challenges.

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Date: Tuesday, July 12, 2016 Incident: MPD Pursuit of an armed suspect near US Capitol. MPD is in pursuit of a suspect near the US Capitol. He is described as a black male in a red T-shirt and black shorts, late teens, possibly armed with a firearm. Shots were fired in this incident near the 3rd St. tunnel. One firearm recovered by MPD. Stay clear of the area and call 911 if you see anyone meeting the description. Date: Friday, June 03, 2016 Incident: Georgetown Law - Suspicious Vehicle The suspicious vehicle, a Ryder Truck has been cleared, the G Street entrance to campus has been reopened. MPD and DPS are checking on a suspicious truck found at the G St. entrance to campus. Stay clear of the area until further notice. Date: April 18, 2016Time: 4:14 pm Robbery - A Georgetown Law student reports being held up at gunpoint in alley near N Capitol and G St Susp. was a black male 16 years, black shirt and backpack. Date: April 18, 2016Time: 4:03 pm

Incident: Assault with a Knife Georgetown Law - MPD reports an assault with a knife next to the E St Lot. Suspect is black male, early 40's, black tank top & jeans armed with a knife. US Capitol AlertDate: March 28, 2016Time: 4:45 pm Investigation at the Capitol continues.  Road closures on Constitution, 2nd St. and Independence remain active. Puppies For Sale In DcThe public should stay clear of the area.Ms Piggy T ShirtGeorgetown University is confronting its troubling ties to the slave trade, by making a monumental change to the school's admissions process.Poison Weight Loss TabletsPresident John DeGioia announced on Thursday that the school will now give preferential admission to the descendants of 272 slaves who the college's earlier leaders sold in order to keep the school afloat.

These descendants, who experts believe number in the thousands, will now receive advantages similar to the children and grandchildren of alumni. It's a unprecedented change that has the potential to inspire other colleges with histories in the slave trade to institute similar policies, a shift that could act as a form of reparations for the African-American community. Georgetown University (campus pictured above) will now give preferential admission to the decedents of 272 slaves the school sold in 1838 to pay off debts The decision comes after DeGioia convened a university committee last year to research the school's history with slavery. That committee released their 102-page report on Thursday, showing that the school's roots in slavery were much deeper than originally believed. The committee found that slavery was built into the business model of the school before it was officially founded in 1789.Slaves worked on the Jesuit plantations whose product provided the school with its funds to build, and also physically built many of the original buildings on campus.

Rev Thomas Mulledy (left) and Rev William McSherry (right) were the Georgetown presidents involved in the sale Two buildings named in Mulledy (left) and McSherry's (right) honor will have their names changed. One will become Isaac Hall, in honor of one of the slaves sold in the sale, and the other will become Anne Marie Becraft Hall, for the 19th century Catholic educator who founded a school for black girls in WashingtonThese indentured workers not only worked out in the fields, but were also brought to campus too to wait on students and other wealthy people.In addition to awarding preferential admission to the descendants of these slaves, the school also plans to issue a formal apology, establish an institute to study slavery, and erect a public memorial to the slaves whose labor benefited the school.Two campus buildings named after the two priests involved in the sale will now be renamed Isaac Hall - to honor Isaac Hawkins, the first slave mention on the bill of sale - and Anne Marie Becraft Hall, for the 19th century Catholic educator who founded a school for black girls in Washington.

The above is a bill of sale dated June 19, 1838. It reads: 'Thomas F Mulledy sells to Jesse Beatty and Henry Johnson two hundred and seventy two negroes, to wit' The above document is a passage from a letter written by Rev. James Van de Velde, describing the Georgetown slaves. 'They are all very good people, industrious, faithful, moral, &c - the character given to them by their owners & their neighbors. But they have scarcely any chance to attend to their religious duties, & the children, several of them not yet baptized, grew up without any religious instruction whatever.'DeGioia is set to speak about the new admissions process at a press conference later on Thursday. So far, he has said that the school will work to identify these descendants and actively recruit them to the university. This work will be done by a new working group. The university committee also recommended scholarships for these students, something DeGioia said the university will explore.   Even without scholarships, the atonement plan is going to cost the school a lot, but DeGioia believes the school's philanthropic community will fully support the plan. 

'All of these will have a substantial financial impact,' DeGioia told the New York Times. 'I’m very confident that will not be a constraint.'In 1838, two Maryland Jesuit priests who served as presidents of the university orchestrated the sale of 272 people to pay off debts at the school, a deal that totaled about $3.3million in today's dollars.The slaves were previously used to work the school's plantations in Maryland. After the deal, they were sent off to work in fields in Louisiana.   The school used about $500,000 from that sale to keep the school afloat when it was under threat of closing.  This isn't the first time that a high-profile American university has tried to make up for ties to slavery. This past spring, the president of Harvard unveiled a plaque at Wadsworth House, the former home of the school's presidents, to honor the slaves who worked there in the college's colonial years. In addition to Harvard and Georgetown, more than a dozen universities have publicly recognized and apologized for their history in the slave trade including Brown and the University of Virginia. 

TIMELINE OF GEORGETOWN'S HISTORY WITH SLAVERY First Jesuits arrive in Maryland with one of the first groups of English colonists. They attempt to convert the local Native Americans and start farming the land with indentured servants. A deed of gift provides the first documented ownership of slaves by Jesuits in Maryland. Jesuits become one of the largest landowners in Maryland. A census conducted this year shows that the religious order owned 192 slaves at this point.Georgetown University is founded by John Carroll, the first Catholic bishop in the United States.Receipt for the hire of an enslaved woman named Sukey provides documented evidence of the use of slaves on Georgetown's campus School president Thomas Mulledy sells 272 enslaved men, women and children to Henry Johnson and Jesse Batey, sugar plantation owners of Louisiana. Pope Gregory XVI condemns the slave trade as 'absolutely unworthy of the Christian name'Even with the sale, campus records show that at least two slaves remained on campus in addition to thirty 'hired' workersPresident Abraham Lincoln abolishes slavery in Washington, DC - eight months before the Emancipation Proclamation.