Harvard University laid off the staff members of its Slavery Remembrance Program on Thursday and outsourced the program.

Staff told Harvard's student newspaper that they were not given any advance notice of the decision to lay off staff and outsource research to a nonprofit.

A program at Harvard University meant to identify the descendants of people previously enslaved by university affiliates has been outsources, while its staff was terminated, a report said.

The litigation piece of the effort to hold Harvard accountable is, fortunately, not yet over. The only non-anonymous plaintiff in the case, Alexander “Shabbos” Kestenbaum, who spoke at the Republican National Convention and has repeatedly testified before Congress on the topic, is moving ahead with discovery in the case.