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The Debt: What Tennessee owes its HBCU (Call-in)

What happens when government funding is withheld from a public university that’s served generations of Black Tennesseans? And what could be possible if that debt were finally paid? Today's This is Nashville call-in episode is a companion to the one-hour radio special from WPLN News and the Tennessee Lookout. Listen now (https://wpln.org/the-debt/) or though the WPLN podcast feed. From Nashville Public Radio and the Tennessee Lookout, The Debt traces Tennessee State University’s decades-long fight for fair funding — through an overlooked Civil Rights lawsuit, a historic merger with a predominantly white university, a dramatic student hunger strike, and a lawmaker who discovered his father’s old research on underfunding. This episode was produced by Camellia Burris. Guests: • Dr. Learotha “Dr. Lee” Williams, Jr. (https://www.tnstate.edu/history/facul...) , Scholar of African-American Civil War and Reconstruction, and Public History at Tennessee State University • Dr. George Pruitt (https://www.tesu.edu/about/history/pa...) , retired university administrator; former president, TESU; former vice-president of student affairs at TSU; author, From Protest to President • Camellia Burris (https://wpln.org/post/author/cburris/) , Education reporter, WPLN • Emily Siner (https://www.emilysiner.com/) , Contributing reporter, WPLN