Two-hundred-year-old HBCUs are among the biggest contributors to the development of the Black middle class in our country. Adams fervently stated, “he’s [President Trump] jeopardizing the futures of countless students.”
Congresswoman Alma Adams, a Democrat from North Carolina, said, “This is only the beginning of a long fight.” The Executive Order to halt government grants and loans is what she is talking about. Within the Historically Black College and University community, there is a palpable fear that several important initiatives centered around equality and race would be affected.
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Adams, the founder and co-chair of the Bicameral HBCU Caucus and a ranking member of a House Subcommittee on Higher Education, told Black Press USA that President Trump’s funding restriction has been temporarily stopped by a federal judge. Adams thinks that by rescinding government efforts for MSIs, President Trump is “dismantling equity in education with the stroke of a pen.” His state has 11 HBCUs, the most of any state.
HBCUs are among the biggest contributors to the development of the Black middle class in our country. Adams fervently stated, “he’s [President Trump] jeopardizing the futures of countless students.”
The suspension is intended to serve as a review time for government grants and loans to agencies and organizations, according to the Trump White House. Historically Black Colleges and Universities are doing well, a White House official informed this writer. However, if federal dollars are used to teach African American history and/or Woke programs, the funds will be taken out of the program and/or school. Talladega College’s interim president, Walter Kimbrough, exclusively told Black Press USA that the HBCU community, which has maintained widespread, nonpartisan support, was taken aback by the original news of the financial embargo.
But “how can you be an HBCU without African American history?” he said scathingly. The executive order’s duration is ninety days. Declaring that there is discretionary expenditure on a contract or non-governmental entity is a review procedure. In addition, Stephen Miller, the Trump White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy, provided the media with an example of teaching “critical race theory,” which he claims would result in the loss of government funds.
“A politically appointed individual… who simply reviews and approves the expenditure so that we have democratic control over the operations of government,” Miller underlined, adding that “this doesn’t impact any programs that Americans rely on.” According to Miller, the federal loans and grants will be paused.
According to Adams, a former professor at an HBCU and alumnus of North Carolina A and T, this review of government financing is “putting HBCUs, which are already underfunded but vital to our communities, directly in harm’s way.” “We are eager to meet with the new administration to remind them of the consequential role HBCUs make to our nation, and to solicit their support and further investment,” Kimbrough said in a statement requesting a meeting between President Trump and the 111 presidents of the country’s Historically Black Colleges and Universities.
