Harry L. WilliamsCOVID-19A Window for Change: 2020 Highlights Challenge to Fragile Community ResidentsAmericans love stories about unlikely heroes. We love to watch or read about individuals who flourish from humble beginnings, overcoming great odds.August 7, 2020African-AmericanOur HBCUs Need Additional Congressional SupportAs we approach June 30th, a date that marks the end of the annual or biennial fiscal years for forty-six of the nation’s fifty states, governors and state legislatures are being forced to make some extremely tough decisions in order to balance their budgets. If past precedent serves as any guide, we can readily anticipate that higher education will be forced to endure an outsized portion of those cuts and, as a consequence, our largely tuition-dependent, public HBCUs will, inevitably, suffer an even greater hardship from those state funding cuts than better-resourced flagship institutions.June 22, 2020African-AmericanHow TMCF is Responding to COVID-19There is little question that higher education in general, and our historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) in particular, have been greatly impacted by COVID-19, the likes of which we have not seen in our lifetime.April 15, 2020African-AmericanDirect Engagement With Trump, GOP Pays Off for HBCUsThe Thurgood Marshall College Fund’s decision not to resist – but instead engage in a strategic way and bipartisan fashion on behalf of our nearly 300,000 HBCU students who need a voice in Congress and with the Trump administration – has borne fruit at many levels.April 8, 2018Page 1 of 1
