Yale slavery reparations includes sending local students to out-of-state HBCUs

Yale University will expand its atonement for its past connections to slavery by helping local New Haven high school students attend college – out of state.

The Pennington Fellowship will award local students $20,000 per year to help them attend Historically Black Colleges and Universities across the country, according to a recent announcement from President Peter Salovey. There are no HBCUs in Connecticut.

A spokesperson for Yale’s New Haven Promise, which will administer the merit-based fellowship, told The College Fix that all resident high school seniors may apply, regardless of race. There are still programs offering funding for students to attend Yale, specifically.