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McGill promises to hire more Black professors, but the statue of its founder will stay
Oct 01, 2020
Heading into its 200th year, McGill University is promising to strengthen its relationship with the Black community in the city, hire more Black professors and recruit more Black students as part of a new anti-racism plan.
There are no immediate plans, however, to move the statue of James McGill, the university's founder, from its spot near the Roddick Gates, despite growing pressure to do so following a report this summer documenting his history as a slave owner.
Instead, the university will add a plaque that includes "his connections to, and involvement with, the transatlantic slave trade and his ownership of enslaved peoples."
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montr...cism-1.5746283
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