Why HBCU's Are Still Fighting For Equal Funding

Since 1890, Historically Black Colleges have offered the promise of equal access to higher education. But former Confederate states haven’t always provided equal funding. In Tennessee, one legislator is now pushing to finally balance the books.
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[@BristolBerg]

Meanwhile Howard U is fighting off rats and leaks in the dorm.

[@TWolfe777]

Black Churches have enough money to fund ALL HBCU, clinics, and any and ALL black institutions + organizations.

[@edwinbrace4681]

This is sad and shameful.

[@spiritualcosmeticss]

Most of these people who commented obliviously did not watch the video, don’t read history books, and are just here to be trolls 🙄.

[@ruthbranson4444]

Pay them what they are owed just like the other colleges that are being funded. Its that simple.

[@Eskeeter03]

A financial endowment is a legal structure for managing, and in many cases indefinitely perpetuating, a pool of financial, real estate or other investments for a specific purpose according to the will of it's founders and donors.

[@queenlifestyle25]

Why are there no introductions for the speakers? Shouldn't there be titles at the bottom of the screen listing their name and roles?

[@BowBeforeMe]

Pay them $750 mil to TSU to rebuild and fund their school

[@merrymachiavelli2041]

I know people in the comments are saying non-Black students can go to HBUs, but I still think the concept of massively disproportionately Black-specific colleagues is counter-productive. The way I see it, they were a sub-optimal solution to a historic, and to some extent continuing, problem. The reason they are sub-optimal is that concentrating a deprived social group in a particular institution or place is always going to run the risk of reinforcing that deprivation, because of the way that social feedback loops work. Put simply, money and power is attracted to money and power.

[@myles-media]

This comment section AINT IT

[@business]

Read more about disparities in HBCU funding in Bloomberg Businessweek:

[@zat0076]

In addition the new generations of African American well of individuals shd also donate since majority of their communities will benefit from attending those schools.

[@chapstick4yacoochielips]

What did George Floyd have to do with this. Smh.

[@dark_child8766]

The ignorance in these comments LOL.

[@kaykpegasus]

Just to be clear, we still gone come for that money yall owe.

[@tanjoy0205]

Can’t wait for the comments on this one.Especially

[@russianukrainiandatingfrom1379]

Balancing books is important. What is more important is EQUALITY - both for the white and the Afroamerican folks.

[@Skilliard]

The value of a college education is vastly overstated. In most cases the opportunity cost of not working for 4 years + the cost of college is much less than the discounted value of the increase in future earnings- meaning if you worked for 4 years and invested part of your earnings, you would be better off than going to college for 4 years and then struggling with student loans.

[@davidsflooringco]

Raise those neighborhoods taxes simple. Affluent black neighborhoods like Hyde Park in Chicago have higher taxes so they have better education. What's not to understand. When try to buy something at store do you get confused when spend less money and you get less?

[@shannonstiles7405]

Thank you for reporting on this.