Boston’s Reparations Task Force is considering the direction of its work after the city decided not to use a Tufts University study examining slavery in Boston, according to WBUR.
The decision followed a finding that the researcher responsible for the project had falsified earlier academic research, WBUR reported. The account identifies past research as the reason for the city’s decision; it does not describe a finding that the Boston study itself was falsified.
Historians and an archaeologist who have studied Boston’s connections to slavery discussed potential ways to move the project forward. Their discussion comes as the task force weighs how to focus its work without the Tufts study.
The supplied WBUR summary does not identify a replacement study, a timetable or an agreed-upon direction for the task force.
