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Nourishing the Nation While Starving: The Underfunding of Black Land-Grant Colleges and Universities

The nineteen Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) that are also federally designated land-grant universities receive only a fraction of the resources given their predominantly white counterparts. As Congress looks to renew the Farm Bill, which provides federal resources to support all land-grant universities, it should move equity and justice for Black land-grant colleges and universities to the center of the policy conversation.

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