Black organizations are real quiet about Tenn. senators VOTING TO VACATE the Tennessee State University board and the $13 billion owed to HBCUs
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WZTV) — The Tennessee Senate voted Thursday to vacate the Tennessee State University board amid backlash from the community and some state lawmakers.
HB1739/SB1596 passed the Senate 25-6 on Thursday, March 21. The proposed law extends the termination date for the TSU board to June 30 of this year. An amendment filed by Sen. Jon Lundberg (R-Bristol) allows the board to exist, but eliminates its members. Sen. Lundberg previously called the move "typical of reconstituting."
TSU students have previously said they're frustrated after not having a voice in the process. State lawmakers have also voiced concern over the bill, with Sen. Charlane Oliver (D-Nashville-D19) saying a bill "of this affect leads to mistrust."
Sen. Oliver notes the Historically Black College and University (HBCU) has already dealt with underfunding, which she states the legislature is at fault for.
On the other hand, Sen. Lundberg (R-Bristol-D4) stated the move is "typical of reconstituting."
TSU released a statement regarding the passage of the Senate bill:
"We are disappointed by the Senate vote today. The Senate and House versions of the TSU Sunset legislation differ at this time, and we look forward to continuing to work with legislators in the House and the Senate to achieve compromise sunset legislation, with a push to secure a clean extension of the TSU Board of Trustees. The extension of the Board would avoid disruption of TSU governance during a critical time for the University and, most importantly, for our students. TSU will continue to push for more favorable legislation that would better serve our university family."
The bill moves forward with the House voting on March 28. Stick with FOX 17 News as we bring you the latest.
Lol at OP thinking that Black organizations actually represent Black people
Black organizations? Tell motheruckers in Tennessee to VOTE. All these arguments over holding those ballots every two years, welp eat the results 
When people are fed up, they will act accordingly or accept the negative repercussions.
HBCU's are about to be deemed racist against white people. Your kids are about to be calculated as a data point for deciding on how many southern prisons to build to mask the new slave movement.
Yeah keep arguing about bullshit. These white supremacists are ACTIVE on all fronts and we still worrying about hip hop beefs and Candace Owens.
When people are fed up, they will act accordingly or accept the negative repercussions.
HBCU's are about to be deemed racist against white people. Your kids are about to be calculated as a data point for deciding on how many southern prisons to build to mask the new slave movement.
Yeah keep arguing about bullshit. These white supremacists are ACTIVE on all fronts and we still worrying about hip hop beefs and Candace Owens.
Dude is a joke. He is on ignore......
He didn't hear the clip clearly....Roland was not just calling out civil rights organizations, but all black orgs. - divine 9, masons, eastern star, black churchs, black business, lynx, black clergy, and etc....
Clown ass nigga ain't never did nothing in our community so as far as I am concerned he was what we call a BITCH ASS NIGGA
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Dude is a joke. He is on ignore......
He didn't hear the clip clearly....Roland was not just calling out civil rights organizations, but all black orgs. - divine 9, masons, eastern star, black churchs, black business, lynx, black clergy, and etc....
Clown ass nigga ain't never did nothing in our community so as far as I am concerned he was what we call a BITCH ASS NIGGA
our community?
You're a coon bro.
fuck you and your community.
Very unfortunate, but not surprising to see.
Don’t vote. Trust me. This is unfortunate. Even very. But the good Black folks of Tennessee will get reparations and more tangibles if they stick to the plan……
Lol at this fag nigga naming boule as representative of Black people
Fat nigga said it with whole her chest too
Fat nigga said it with whole her chest too
Okay….
All that sassy yelling won't do shit if people don't vote. White people don't care about you calling them names when they are a damn Senator. They don't care about you calling them a hillbilly when they control your voting maps. They don't give a shit if you dump on their college, when they now run a HBCU.
Shut the fuck up and VOTE.
Might want to call your cousins and repopulate a few States quietly and quickly versus this under 25% population density plan spread across 6 southern States
HBCUs will soon be deemed racist to white people
White HBCU Professor Wins Racial Discrimination Lawsuit Against Harris-Stowe State University
Harris-Stowe State University, an HBCU in St. Louis, discriminated against a white professor based on race and gender, a jury found.
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Gov. Bill Lee names new appointees to TSU Board of Trustees
Gov. Bill Lee has already named his appointees to serve on the TSU Board of Trustees after vacating the board through legislation.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — Within hours of the House passing its version of the bill to vacate the entire board of trustees at Tennessee State University, Gov. Bill Lee signed the measure and announced his appointees for the seats.
In a release, the governor said he appointed eight TSU alumni to be the new Board of Trustees.
“Tennessee State University is a remarkable institution and my administration, in partnership with the General Assembly, is committed to ensuring students are being served,” Lee said in the release. “I’m pleased to appoint these highly qualified individuals who will work alongside administrators and students to further secure TSU’s place as a leading institution.”
Bill vacating TSU board signed by Gov. Bill Lee
The appointees are
- Trevia Chatma, President, Bank of America Memphis
- Jeffery Norfleet, Provost and Vice President for Administration, Shorter College
- Marquita Qualls, Founder and Principal, Entropia Consulting
- Terica Smith, Deputy Mayor and Director of Human Resources, Madison County
- Charles Traughber, General Counsel, Division of Real Estate, Retail and Financial Services at Bridgestone Americas
- Dwayne Tucker, CEO of LEAD Public Schools
- Kevin Williams, President and CEO of GAA Manufacturing
- Dakasha Winton, Senior Vice President and Chief Government Relations Officer at BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee
Let these dumb niggas know fam!All that sassy yelling won't do shit if people don't vote. White people don't care about you calling them names when they are a damn Senator. They don't care about you calling them a hillbilly when they control your voting maps. They don't give a shit if you dump on their college, when they now run a HBCU.
Shut the fuck up and VOTE.
Might want to call your cousins and repopulate a few States quietly and quickly versus this under 25% population density plan spread across 6 southern States
HBCUs will soon be deemed racist to white people
White HBCU Professor Wins Racial Discrimination Lawsuit Against Harris-Stowe State University
Harris-Stowe State University, an HBCU in St. Louis, discriminated against a white professor based on race and gender, a jury found.
stop asking for shit, representation, and accountability!
Now is NOT the time for all of that!
These cacs want us back in chains!
colleges today. slavery tomorrow!
talking about it now..
trying to understand now....i know the state owes them millions of dollars though
Trump bascially renewed funding that Obama put in place, but Congress let it lapse.....
Biden has increased funding every year since being in office...
HBCU funding
President Donald Trump holds up the Historically Black Colleges and Universities HBCU Executive Order after signing it, Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2017, in the Oval Office in the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) | Andrew Harnik/AP Photo
In January, Trump baffled HBCU leaders when he claimed he saved their institutions by signing bipartisan legislation that included annual funding for historically Black colleges and universities.
The bill is a 10-year renewal of funding. During Obama’s eight years in office, mandatory HBCU funding ranged from almost $80 million to $85 million per year. The same has been true during Trump’s administration.
“He started in January saying he saved HBCUs... People were just shocked,” said Walter Kimbrough, president of Dillard University, a private HBCU in New Orleans. The amount of funding for HBCUs is “the same thing that we had under President Obama.”
Seventeen percent of Black students with bachelor’s degrees earned them from HBCUs, which are more reliant on government funding and have much smaller endowments than predominantly white institutions.
Even after Trump signed the legislation, Michael Lomax, president and CEO of the United Negro College Fund, warned that HBCUs are “woefully underfunded” at an annual state of the HBCU address in March. He’s pushing for a $1 billion grant for HBCU infrastructure, a doubling of Pell grants and a tripling of the Title III funding in the FUTURE Act.
Post Retreads False Claim About Biden’s Funding for Historically Black Colleges
Quick Take
The Biden administration has awarded billions in funding to Historically Black Colleges and Universities, including more than $2.7 billion provided in the American Rescue Plan. Yet a social media post revives an old, false claim that Biden revoked $250 million that then-President Donald Trump “pledged to give historical black colleges for the next 10 years.”Full Story
The Biden administration has made multiple investments in support of Historically Black Colleges and Universities, or HBCUs. The White House last year released a state-by-state list of the $2.7 billion in funding provided through the American Rescue Plan, with the exact amount each school has received.HBCUs were established in the early 19th century to provide African Americans with opportunities in higher education that were not accessible due to segregation and discrimination. The schools continue to serve the Black community, creating new generations of leaders and scholars.
However, a social media post falsely claims that President Joe Biden has cut $250 million in funding that former President Donald Trump pledged to give HBCUs. The post reads, in part: “Biden just revoked the 250 million United Negro College fund that Trump pledged to give historical black colleges for the next 10 years. Still think Biden isn’t a racist dictator?”
In 2019, Trump did sign a bill — the FUTURE Act — that permanently provided $255 million in annual support for HBCUs that had lapsed after Congress didn’t renew the funding.
Biden made no changes to that commitment. In fact, federal funding of HBCUs has increased every year under Biden. The $2.7 billion in HBCU funding through the American Rescue Plan was in addition to that annual funding increase.
The false claim about Biden’s funding for HBCUs first circulated on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter in 2021. At the time, Tyrone Couey, president of the National Historically Black Colleges & Universities Alumni Associations Foundation, told the Associated Press that Biden had not made any cuts to HBCUs. Lodriguez Murray, senior vice president of public policy and affairs at the United Negro College Fund, or UNCF, told the AP he was disturbed “that someone dares to use UNCF’s good name” to make false claims.
The social media post misrepresents the role of the UNCF, which does not receive any federal funding, as indicated on its website. The UNCF is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit funded through contributions from individuals, corporations and foundations. The organization also lobbies Congress and the president for support.
It’s worth noting that Biden’s budget for fiscal year 2024 proposes $1.04 billion in funding for HBCUs, tribal colleges and universities and Hispanic-serving institutions, as well as $30 million “to provide two years of subsidized tuition for students from families earning less than $125,000” and who are enrolled in four-year HBCUs and other minority-serving institutions.
Thanks !Trump bascially renewed funding that Obama put in place, but Congress let it lapse.....
Biden has increased funding every year since being in office...
HBCU funding
President Donald Trump holds up the Historically Black Colleges and Universities HBCU Executive Order after signing it, Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2017, in the Oval Office in the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) | Andrew Harnik/AP Photo
In January, Trump baffled HBCU leaders when he claimed he saved their institutions by signing bipartisan legislation that included annual funding for historically Black colleges and universities.
The bill is a 10-year renewal of funding. During Obama’s eight years in office, mandatory HBCU funding ranged from almost $80 million to $85 million per year. The same has been true during Trump’s administration.
“He started in January saying he saved HBCUs... People were just shocked,” said Walter Kimbrough, president of Dillard University, a private HBCU in New Orleans. The amount of funding for HBCUs is “the same thing that we had under President Obama.”
Seventeen percent of Black students with bachelor’s degrees earned them from HBCUs, which are more reliant on government funding and have much smaller endowments than predominantly white institutions.
Even after Trump signed the legislation, Michael Lomax, president and CEO of the United Negro College Fund, warned that HBCUs are “woefully underfunded” at an annual state of the HBCU address in March. He’s pushing for a $1 billion grant for HBCU infrastructure, a doubling of Pell grants and a tripling of the Title III funding in the FUTURE Act.
Post Retreads False Claim About Biden’s Funding for Historically Black Colleges
Quick Take
The Biden administration has awarded billions in funding to Historically Black Colleges and Universities, including more than $2.7 billion provided in the American Rescue Plan. Yet a social media post revives an old, false claim that Biden revoked $250 million that then-President Donald Trump “pledged to give historical black colleges for the next 10 years.”
Full Story
The Biden administration has made multiple investments in support of Historically Black Colleges and Universities, or HBCUs. The White House last year released a state-by-state list of the $2.7 billion in funding provided through the American Rescue Plan, with the exact amount each school has received.
HBCUs were established in the early 19th century to provide African Americans with opportunities in higher education that were not accessible due to segregation and discrimination. The schools continue to serve the Black community, creating new generations of leaders and scholars.
However, a social media post falsely claims that President Joe Biden has cut $250 million in funding that former President Donald Trump pledged to give HBCUs. The post reads, in part: “Biden just revoked the 250 million United Negro College fund that Trump pledged to give historical black colleges for the next 10 years. Still think Biden isn’t a racist dictator?”
In 2019, Trump did sign a bill — the FUTURE Act — that permanently provided $255 million in annual support for HBCUs that had lapsed after Congress didn’t renew the funding.
Biden made no changes to that commitment. In fact, federal funding of HBCUs has increased every year under Biden. The $2.7 billion in HBCU funding through the American Rescue Plan was in addition to that annual funding increase.
The false claim about Biden’s funding for HBCUs first circulated on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter in 2021. At the time, Tyrone Couey, president of the National Historically Black Colleges & Universities Alumni Associations Foundation, told the Associated Press that Biden had not made any cuts to HBCUs. Lodriguez Murray, senior vice president of public policy and affairs at the United Negro College Fund, or UNCF, told the AP he was disturbed “that someone dares to use UNCF’s good name” to make false claims.
The social media post misrepresents the role of the UNCF, which does not receive any federal funding, as indicated on its website. The UNCF is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit funded through contributions from individuals, corporations and foundations. The organization also lobbies Congress and the president for support.
It’s worth noting that Biden’s budget for fiscal year 2024 proposes $1.04 billion in funding for HBCUs, tribal colleges and universities and Hispanic-serving institutions, as well as $30 million “to provide two years of subsidized tuition for students from families earning less than $125,000” and who are enrolled in four-year HBCUs and other minority-serving institutions.