Some good news for those MD HBCUs finally...

[VA's Finest]

Maryland has voted in favor of awarding four state universities more than half a billion dollars in compensation for years of institutional racial discrimination, signaling the end of a long legal battle.

In a victory resulting from a lawsuit filed more than a decade ago, four historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) can expect a boost to their budgets of a total of $577m after the Maryland senate, in a rare legislative resolution to legal action, gave bipartisan support to a landmark settlement.


“It’s been a long time coming,” said Michael Jones, partner with Kirkland & Ellis LLP and one of the lead attorneys with the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. “We’ve had four failed mediations under two governors since 2013.

“It was a historic moment. Listening to it was like listening to the passage of major civil rights legislation,” Jones added.



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www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/mar/26/maryland-hbcus-racial-discrimination-compensation