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The underfunding of HBCUs with Harry L. Williams, Ed.D

In Black America

On this edition of In Black America, producer and host John L. Hanson Jr. speaks with Harry L. Williams, Ed.D, President and CEO of Thurgood Marshall College Fund (TMCF).

Williams was the tenth president of the HBCU Delaware State University from 2010 to 2017 before his current position.
Courtesy of Harry L. Williams
Williams was the tenth president of the HBCU Delaware State University from 2010 to 2017 before his current position.

TMCF is the country’s largest champion of the Black college community and the only national organization providing financial and professional support to students attending publicly supported historically Black colleges and universities (HBCU). The organization ensures African American students have access to higher education and the life-changing career opportunities they need to further increase generational wealth and build underserved communities.

For decades sixteen states have been underfunding some of their historically Black colleges. According to an analysis from the U.S. Department of Education, the shortfall is more than $12 billion. Hanson and Williams discuss these inequities and what TMCF is doing to close the gap.

In Black America can be heard on KUT 90.5 every Tuesday evening at 10pm, Sunday morning at 6:30am, and anytime wherever you listen to podcasts.

John L. Hanson is the producer and host of the nationally syndicated radio series In Black America. It’s heard on home station KUT at 10 p.m. Tuesdays and 6:30 a.m. Sundays — and weekly on close to 20 stations across the country. The weekly podcast of IBA, the only nationally broadcast Black-oriented public affairs radio program, is one of KUT’s most popular podcasts.
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