P&SP in the News

Daily Pennsylvanian

April 9, 2021

Brandon Anaya | "Students, West Philadelphias call on Penn to 'return the remains' of Morton Collection"

March 3, 2021

Jack Starobin | "Penn & Slavery Project releases virtual campus tour app illustrating Penn's ties to slavery"

July 15, 2020

Zoey Weisman | "Penn & Slavery Project urges U. to further address racism after removing Whitefield statue"

July 2, 2020

Zoey Weisman | "Penn announces plan to remove statue of slave owner George Whitefield from the Quad"

October 6, 2019

Jessica Gooding | "Critically examining George Whitefield's statue in the Quad"

August 29, 2019

Abdul-Aliy Muhammad, "Guest Column by Abdul-Aliy Muhammad | Penn, complicit in slavery and displacement must engage in reparative action"

April 17, 2019

The DP Editorial Board, "Editorial | Georgetown reparations highlight importance of studying Penn's ties to slavery."

April 08, 2019

Ashley Ahn, "Penn & Slavery symposium reveals U. was funded by donations from owners of enslaved people"

December 10, 2018

Amy Liu, "Penn used bodies of enslaved people for teaching purposes after death, student research reveals" 

August 24, 2018

Madeleine Ngo, "Penn has acknowledged its ties to slavery, but student researchers say their work is far from over" 

June 29, 2018

Manlu Liu, "Penn unveils new findings on history with slavery: over 75 former trustees owned slaves" 

April 24, 2018

Giovanna Paz, "New findings from Penn Slavery Project show how U. benefited financially from enslaved labor" 

March 14, 2018

Max Cohen, "Penn Slavery Project student researchers express concern over role of faculty working group" 

February 18, 2018

Giovanna Paz, "Penn formed a group to research its historical ties to slavery. Here's what it aims to do."

January 24, 2018

Carson Kahoe, "Penn forms group to address new research tying its founding trustees to the slave trade" 

January 13, 2018

Rahul Chopra & Giovanna Paz, "Penn student researchers dig into the University's unaddressed ties to the slave trade"

34th Street

December 5, 2018 (Mentioned)

Meerabelle Jesuthasan, "A Permanent Legacy: The Naming Process at Penn"

February 28, 2018

VanJessica Gladney, "We Challenged Penn to Reexamine Its History of Slavery- And Our Project Isn't Over"

Administrative Publications

February 16, 2021

Lauren Hertzler | Challenging and transforming everyday experiences on Penn's campus

Feb 2, 2020

"Penn announces plans to remove statue of George Whitefield and forms working group to study campus names and iconography."

January 23, 2018

"University Forms Working Group to Examine the Role of Slavery in Penn's Early Years," Penn Today

October 11, 2018

Jane Carrol & Lauren Rebecca Thacker, "The Stories We Tell," Omnia

Non-Penn Publications

April 8, 2021

Stephan Salisbury, "Rally demands the repatriation of the Penn Museum's Morton skull collection," The Philadelphia Inquirer

February 23, 2020

Susan Snyder, "Rutgers, Penn take steps to confront ties to slavery on their campuses," The Philadelphia Inquirer 

July 3, 2020

Allie Miller, "Penn tearing down statue of slavery advocate George Whitefield," PhillyVoice

July 2, 2020

Susan Snyder, "Penn to remove statue of slavery supporter, forms group to look at campus iconography," The Philadelphia Inquirer

August 4, 2018

Ruth Serven Smith, "Grave robbing detailed in final UVa slavery report," Daily Progress.

July 2, 2018

LaMont Jones, "Academics React to UPenn’s Ties to Slavery," Diverse Education.

June 29, 2018

Susan Snyder, "Penn’s ‘profoundly painful’ past: At least 75 of the school’s earliest trustees owned slaves," The Inquirer.

May 1, 2018

Onaje McDowelle, "Looking in the Mirror," Study Breaks.

February 22, 2018

Isaiah Denby, "University of Pennsylvania creates group to research its own ties to slavery after shocking findings," Washington Examiner.

February 3, 2018

Jonathan Zimmerman, "Scrubbing creep Steve Wynn's name from UPenn is easy, but with slave owner Ben Franklin it's complicated," Daily News.

January 16, 2018

Clair Sasko, "Penn Students Expose University's Early Connections to Slavery," Philadelphia Mag.