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AILSA CHANG, HOST: Can you imagine being at a college that s missing out on as much as half a billion dollars? Well, Tennessee State University - the only public historically Black college and university in the state of Tennessee - doesn t have to imagine this. From 1957 to 2007, Tennessee State University was underfunded year after year, as the Tennessee state legislature failed to allocate funds to the school as it s required to do so under a state law. And Tennessee state isn t the only HBCU missing out on state funds. To talk about all of this more, we re joined now by Andre Perry. He s a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution.
Carlette Duffy felt both vindicated and excited. Both relieved and angry.
For months, she suspected she had been low-balled on two home appraisals because she s Black. She decided to put that suspicion to the test and asked a white family friend to stand in for her during an appraisal.
Her home s value suddenly shot up. A lot.
During the early months of the coronavirus pandemic last year, the first two appraisers who visited her home in the historic Flanner House Homes neighborhood, just west of downtown, valued it at $125,000 and $110,000, respectively.
But that third appraisal went differently.
To get that one, Duffy, who is African American, communicated with the appraiser strictly via email, stripped her home of all signs of her racial and cultural identity and had the white husband of a friend stand in for her during the appraiser s visit.
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Tennessee State University could be due for a half-billion-dollar payout, according to recent findings that show the HBCU has been historically underfunded.
Tennessee could owe a historically Black university more than a half-billion dollars after it withheld funding for decades.
A bipartisan legislative committee determined last month that the state failed to adequately fund Tennessee State University in matched land grants going all the way back to the 1950s, costing the public university between $150 million and $544 million.
When the school was founded, the federal government designated it a land-grant institution, as it did with the University of Tennessee. Under the program, the state of
Theft At A Scale That Is Unprecedented : Behind The Underfunding Of HBCUs
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Tennessee State University could be due for a half-billion-dollar payout, according to recent findings that show the HBCU has been historically underfunded.
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Tennessee could owe a historically Black university more than a half-billion dollars after it withheld funding for decades.
A bipartisan legislative committee determined last month that the state failed to adequately fund Tennessee State University in matched land grants going all the way back to the 1950s, costing the public university between $150 million and $544 million.
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