Between 2013-16, Maryland Illegally Spent $550 Million to Avoid Investing in HBCUs

Historically black universities in Maryland have long been victimized by the state’s efforts to maintain two systems of higher education separating black students from white students. It has been a […]

Maryland HBCU Faculty Plan Rally at State Capitol

Faculty members from Maryland’s four historically black colleges and universities will hold a rally this week to protest inequitable funding from the state towards its HBCUs, and the unsatisfactory remedies […]

Maryland HBCU Presidents Reject State's 'Separate But Equal' Remedy Proposal

In an editorial published by the Baltimore Sun yesterday, three of Maryland’s four historically black college presidents rejected a proposal from the University of Maryland System to remedy its decades-long maintenance of a ‘separate but equal’ system of higher education for black and white students. 

Federal Court Considers Proposals in Maryland 'Separate But Equal' HBCU Lawsuit

The University of Baltimore and Towson University are ending a 9-year-old joint Master of Business Administration degree program that sparked a lawsuit over a lack of investment in Maryland’s historically black colleges

Morgan State President Emeritus, Coppin State Professor Talk Maryland HBCU Lawsuit

The Real News Network Executive Producer Eddie Conway speaks with Morgan State University President Emeritus Earl Richardson and Coppin State University Assistant Professor Kenneth Morgan, about the ongoing Maryland HBCU ‘separate but equal’ litigation.

Maryland HBCU Lawsuit Leaves No Room for Mistakes in Selection of Next Chancellor

The lawsuit and the resulting court decision are of such importance as to require a transformative leader with fresh ideas; a leader who is less invested in the current system of higher education and more committed to change; a person who has not benefited from, or encouraged the unconstitutional practice of unnecessary program duplication at the sacrifice of a more economically efficient, socially effective and constitutionally sound system of colleges and universities.