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6 Oct, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Since I've found so many new found HBCU advocates, I need y'all to do more than just tweet about the reduction in the proposed budget for HBCUs. First though you need to get the facts. Watch today, 12 pm ET/11 CT. 1/
Contact the members of the @EdLaborCmte and tell them to fully fund HBCUs at the level President Biden requested. 2/
edlabor.house.gov/about/membersh…
Support the #HBCUIgnite Act. The @uncf has a great platform that makes it easy to write, call or tweet members of Congress to express your support. Put those twitter fingers to good use! 3/
uncf.org/hbcuignite
Finally, there is nothing that stops anyone from donating directly to HBCUs. Pick one and give annually. 4/4

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A THREAD on the $30 billion HBCU cut lie: It's a lie. Critical thinking and understanding context have officially died in America. So folks are sharing this propaganda recklessly. So let me give some facts. 1/
Fact: "Each year, the federal government disperses about $1 billion to HBCUs through a mix of 15 programs such as Pell Grants and research and development contracts."
You can cut 30 from 1. Simple math.
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A Trump Town Hall reminder. Man, the HBCU story continues to grow. Here is the president tonight. 1/
Reminder 1: In his FY20 budget he zeroed out the program he is now saying he funded. Look at line G. There was $79M in FY19, 0 in FY20 President's budget. 2/
He never publicly advocated for the funding, including while speaking at the HBCU week conference the month the program ended. 3/
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11 Oct 20
The reason he can keep saying he funded HBCUs “because nobody was funding them for years and years” is because his supporters have no interest in HBCUs enough to ask basic questions. Really quick thread. 1/

The Higher Education Act of 1965 created a program so that HBCUs could receive Federal funds. So that's 55 years. 2/
repository.upenn.edu/cgi/viewconten…
The Higher Education Act amendment in 1986 created annual, Federal funding for HBCUs, indicating “the current state of Black colleges & universities [was] partly attributable to the discriminatory actions of the States and the Federal Government.” 3/
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26 Sep 20
A PLATINUM THREAD: When President Trump launched his Platinum Plan in Atlanta, he spent a few minutes discussing HBCUs. Watch the clip, and then read the fact check. 1/
Trump claimed Obama and Biden cut funding for HBCUs in their first year. Backstory: In 2007 the Title III F program was created by the College Cost Reduction Act signed by George W. Bush. 2/
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It was to be $85M/year for two years, but Bush tried to phase it out in the FY09 budget. 3/
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