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Walter M. Kimbrough Profile picture
@HipHopPrez
Aug 21, 2020 • 8 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
.@KamalaHarris has provided additional attention on HBCUs as an alum, but she has been involved in policies to benefit HBCUs as a Senator. 1/
She was involved in bipartisan legislation for HBCU historic preservation.
tmcf.org/events-media/t… 2/
She was an original co-sponsor of the HBCU Capital Financing Improvement Act. 3/
adams.house.gov/media-center/i…
Senator Harris was part of a group of senators who wrote to U.S. News & World Report urging them "to further change their methodology for college rankings by more expansively considering a school’s diversity, inclusion, and representation." 4/
coons.senate.gov/news/press-rel…
I have always hated US News rankings. They wrote "As the leading mass media ranking outlet, we fear U.S. News continues to create a perverse incentive for schools to adopt or maintain policies that perpetuate social and economic inequalities." AMEN! 5/
coons.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/…
Harris is a co-sponsor of the What You Can Do For Your Country Act, "a bill that would substantially overhaul improve the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program." 6/
forbes.com/sites/adammins…
Co-sponsored America's College Promise Act including "a new grant program to provide pathways to success at (HBCUs)... covering a significant portion of tuition and fees for low-income students..." 7/
…nsumerfinancialserviceslawmonitor.com/2018/03/anothe…
And she helped reintroduce the Debt-Free College Act. Add this to her fighting predatory for profit colleges and she has a pretty solid higher ed and HBCU resume. 8/8
dailycal.org/2019/03/11/sen…

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Aug 1
I'm sorry @PolitiFact - but your fact check regarding HBCUs is incorrect. A 🧵His campaign "promise" was half a sentence from an October 2016 speech in Charlotte: "My plan will also ensure funding for historic black colleges and universities..." 1/ Image
But as I have shared, he proposed over $100M in cuts to HBCUs in his 4 budget proposals, including the program made permanent under the FUTURE Act. He zeroed it out in his FY20 budget, noted by the Thurgood Marshall College Fund. 2/

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The FUTURE Act gives $85M to HBCUs (not $255M- that number includes other MSIs). 3/
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Jun 17
Too often we take things out of context. So while traveling I decided to listen to the entire 45-minute Trump even at the Detroit church. The news didn't indicate he mentioned HBCUs. But let me go through his remarks- a 🧵 1/ Image
He said "We have record funding to historically Black colleges and universities. You all know that." But what he never says is that for his 4 budgets, he requested $107M in cuts for the 3 largest Title III programs!
Here are the DOE budget tables, FY18- FY21. Compare his request, what the House and Senate proposed, and the final appropriation. In spite of him trying to cut every year, CONGRESS increased HBCU funding by $118M during his term. Taking credit without doing the work! 3/


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Nov 30, 2023
“Lying requires no work and has no limits. It demands no proof.... Told often and emphatically enough, lies can overwhelm the truth...” Brian Rosenberg

Quick 🧵on this evolving lie... 1/ Image
Let's start with the "where they had none." HBCUs have had federal funding since the 1960s. You can see almost 20 years here. But note in 2008 there is a new category- mandatory funding. 2/
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Under President Bush the College Cost Reduction Act was passed, which included a new, 2-year mandatory program for HBCUs. 3/
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Nov 28, 2023
Since folks continue to speculate what's on this paper, I thought I should tell you. (Hint: nothing). A 🧵 1/ Image
Way too many people think that Trump's HBCU executive order provided funding, provided permanent funding, or totally funded HBCUs. Point 1- there is NO MONEY allocated. In fact, you can't even find the word million or billion. 2/ Image
There is a debate that continues about the ability of President's to appropriate funding through an EO. This is a good article explaining it.

"Fact check: Presidential spending through executive orders is possible"
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 usatoday.com/story/news/fac…
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May 27, 2023
I’ve recently realized how often people cite Dr. Lomax “thanking” President Trump as proof that he was a consequential force in HBCU funding. A 🧵 about the thanks was nowhere near a ringing endorsement. 1/ ImageImage
People get the quote from this article where it says “Michael Lomax, president and CEO of the United Negro College Fund, thanked Trump and the thousands of advocates who lobbied Congress to support the bill.” 2/
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The UNCF press release provides full context. Before even mentioning Trump, Lomax clearly indicates bipartisan support PLUS pressure by HBCU alumni and advocates to get this done. If the President had placed this in his budget, this would not be needed (KEY POINT). 3/ Image
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Dec 23, 2022
I've had enough of people sharing this article which masquerades as journalism, and even more disappointed to see someone who should know better add to the foolishness. So here is a 🧵to make it make sense. 1/
Here is the @Newsweek article. Newsweek is wrong for posting this article on a number of fronts. First, it summarizes a few paragraphs of the original article by the Associated Press, and then pastes the rest of the @AP article. 2/
newsweek.com/hbcu-funding-f…
Here is the ORIGINAL article. Compare the framing of the story with the titles. The Newsweek article misleads folks by saying funding falls, suggesting HBCUs had $45 BILLION that Biden cut (more on what $45 billion buys in a bit). 3/
apnews.com/article/corona…
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