HBCU DIGEST: When saving HBCUs distracts from countering the dangerous MSI agenda

Officials in Michigan earlier this month announced plans to support the reopening of the Lewis College of Business and Design, a school that will now be committed to free education for non-traditional, minority learners in Detroit. 

The media billed it as the return of Detroit's only historically Black institution. But, in name and law, it is not. With an increasing number of policies being developed to marginalize HBCU funding and missions, the larger public must understand the critical differences between what an HBCU is, what it could be, and how the nation has quietly designated hundreds of schools to replace HBCUs with virtually no one in our communities being the wiser.