Georgetown University has announced it will afford preferential admissions treatment to the descendants of Africans enslaved and sold by the university itself. In 1838, Georgetown sold 272 enslaved Africans belonging to prominent Jesuit priests to help secure the future of the Catholic institution. On Thursday, Georgetown President John DeGioia said he’d issue a formal apology for the sale, as well as afford their descendants the same admissions treatment afforded to children of faculty and alumni. At the ceremony, however, the descendants of the enslaved challenged DeGioia, saying Georgetown had excluded them from the process. One of the descendants, Joe Stewart, said, “We are those faces and our attitude is: nothing about us without us. If reconciliation is gonna take place as it has to, it needs to start at home and you don’t start reconciling by alienating.”