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The White House has issued afact sheetannouncing USD$1.3 billion in new investments in Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HCBUs) ahead of President Biden's remarks at the HCBU conference in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, scheduled to get underway shortly. Livestream

  • The White House said: "The Biden-Harris Administration has advanced racial equity, economic opportunity, and educational excellence through HBCUs since Day One," noting that the Administration, "is the most diverse administration in history and many members are HBCU graduates, including Vice President Kamala Harris."
  • Biden's remarks come as Harris struggles to reconstruct the level of support amongst Black voters that contributed to Biden's win in 2020.
  • Politico notes: "In 2020, roughly 90 percent of Black voters supported President Joe Biden," [but an] "NAACP released a poll on Friday that found one in four younger Black men are backing her Republican opponent Trump."
  • Democratic National Committee Chair Jaime Harrison said in an interview: “If we can get the turnout in rural Georgia, in rural North Carolina, rural Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, where we’ve got sizable pockets of Black and brown voters, it puts less pressure on our urban areas, and it really allows us to run up these scores. It’s going to be the reason why Kamala Harris is going to be elected 47th president.”
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The White House has issued afact sheetannouncing USD$1.3 billion in new investments in Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HCBUs) ahead of President Biden's remarks at the HCBU conference in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, scheduled to get underway shortly. Livestream

  • The White House said: "The Biden-Harris Administration has advanced racial equity, economic opportunity, and educational excellence through HBCUs since Day One," noting that the Administration, "is the most diverse administration in history and many members are HBCU graduates, including Vice President Kamala Harris."
  • Biden's remarks come as Harris struggles to reconstruct the level of support amongst Black voters that contributed to Biden's win in 2020.
  • Politico notes: "In 2020, roughly 90 percent of Black voters supported President Joe Biden," [but an] "NAACP released a poll on Friday that found one in four younger Black men are backing her Republican opponent Trump."
  • Democratic National Committee Chair Jaime Harrison said in an interview: “If we can get the turnout in rural Georgia, in rural North Carolina, rural Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, where we’ve got sizable pockets of Black and brown voters, it puts less pressure on our urban areas, and it really allows us to run up these scores. It’s going to be the reason why Kamala Harris is going to be elected 47th president.”