Maryland HBCUs Rally to Secure Futures - Higher Education: ANNAPOLIS, Md. — Students from Maryland’s four historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) rallied on Monday in order to get the state’s attention for increased funding.
Approximately seven buses loaded with students from Bowie State, Coppin State and Morgan State Universities and the University of Maryland Eastern Shore gathered on the lawn in front of the Maryland State Capitol Building. The crowd of students chanted school-specific cheers, launching the event as they awaited the line-up of speakers.
The rally was a continued effort of the lawsuit, filed in 2006, that claims that the state of Maryland has not discontinued policies and practices that have marginalized HBCUs in relation to the state’s White public institutions. Closing arguments were heard last October.
With support from faculty members of the four Maryland HBCUs, Maryland delegates, representatives from Black fraternities and sororities, along with organizations such as HBCUnified, the Legislative Black Caucus of Maryland and the NAACP, the rally gathered hundreds of individuals.
