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Trump’s $500M HBCU Bet: Common Sense Pays Off for Black Colleges

In a political world where every headline seems designed to divide us, sometimes somethinghappens that makes you stop and say: “Wait… did that really just happen?” Last month, President Donald Trump announced a nearly half-billion-dollar funding surge forAmerica’s Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) — schools that have producedgenerations of doctors, lawyers, engineers, entrepreneurs, and changemakers. Yes, you read that …