The Debt: What Tennessee Owes Its HBCU
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The Debt: What Tennessee Owes Its HBCU
For more than 50 years, the State of Tennessee did not equally fund the University of Tennessee and Tennessee State University shorting TSU $544 million in land grant money-$2 billion per student.
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