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2019 TSU homecoming parade

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The U.S. secretaries of education and agriculture wrote to Gov. Bill Lee on Monday informing him that, according to federal estimates, the state of Tennessee has underfunded Tennessee State University by more than $2 billion over the past three decades.

That estimate puts Tennessee at the top of the list with Florida in terms of which states have most thoroughly stiffed their historically Black land-grant universities.

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