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In an unusual and confounding move, attorneys for Maryland relied on an expert witness who acknowledged that he never visited the four Black institutions before concluding that they had received sufficient state funding over the past years to remedy past racial discrimination.more
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HBCU ‘Equality’ Lawsuit: The State’s Astounding Expert
Originally published February 08, 2012In an unusual and confounding move, attorneys for Maryland relied on an expert witness who acknowledged that he never visited the four Black institutions before concluding that they had received sufficient state funding over the past years to remedy past racial discrimination.more
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February 09, 2012 -
Maryland’s four historical black institutions continued to forge ahead Monday with their $2.1 billion case against the state, claiming injustice in the way of funding and segregated practices. more
February 08, 2012 -
A White teenager charged with intentionally running over a Black man with his pickup truck in Jackson, Miss. last summer, is fighting to have his trial moved to a predominately non-Black county.more
February 01, 2012 -
Dr. Samuel Myers said it “hurt his heart” as he listened to testimony at the ongoing HBCU Equality trial, Jan. 31. The president emeritus of Bowie State College, one of Maryland’s four HBCUs, said he’s spent his life working in higher education. “And I’ve seen the disparities that exist between funding for Blacks in higher education and those generally,” he said. “And I know that the courts have long since ruled that the disparity be eliminated.”more
January 25, 2012 -
In keeping with the tradition of fighting for and supporting historical Black universities and colleges (HBCU), leaders and members of local Black churches crowded into courtroom 7D of the Garmatz Federal Courthouse Jan. 24 to show support for the ongoing Maryland HBCU Equality Lawsuit.more
January 25, 2012 -
In South Carolina, former Massachusetts Gov. Willard Mitt Romney may have had the worst week in politics ever. When Romney and his well-organized, well-financed forces descended upon South Carolina for their final push to take the coveted South Carolina Republican Primary prize he had the chance to leave the Palmetto State with a nearly unassailable 3-0 record in the first three GOP contests of 2012.more
January 25, 2012 -
Morgan State University has been unable to fully execute its mission because of poor financial support from the state of Maryland, its retired president has testified.more
January 18, 2012 -
As the plaintiffs continued its case in a trial of a $2.1 billion lawsuit to bring parity to Maryland’s four historically Black colleges and universities, a former chairman of the Maryland Higher Education Commission testified how the state continued to duplicate programs at traditionally White institutions despite an agreement with the federal government to stop doing so.more
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