Tennessee State University Board of Trustees vacated
Tennessee House Republicans voted to vacate the Tennessee State Board of Trustees, leaving Governor Bill Lee to appoint new members.
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Tennessee House Republicans voted to vacate the Tennessee State Board of Trustees, leaving Governor Bill Lee to appoint new members.
Republican lawmakers voted to remove the entire Tennessee State University board.
The legislation cleared the state GOP-controlled House on Thursday in a 66-25 vote, and Governor Bill Lee signed off a few hours later.
It seemed like things couldn’t get any more shocking after Tennessee Republicans kicked two Black State Representatives out of the State Legislature last year. But the latest move affecting Tennessee’s only publicly-funded, Historically Black University still managed to send shock waves across the state.
Trustees of Tennessee's only publicly funded historically Black university were removed Thursday under legislation signed into law by...