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Black child has a black teacher in a classroom, they do so much better. we need black doctors and dentists and nurses, and those types of professionals in our communities to lift our communities, and what better institutions who concentrate on that from their beginning, their genesis, was about making sure that african-americans found liberty through education, the best place to do that is in our historically black colleges and universities, and senator bernie sanders has the strongest plan for our hbcus of any presidential candidate. >> where would he get the $5 billion from? how will he pay ...

African-american, and the call and response we have in many of our traditional churches was right there when the senator was talking about justice. it's not just him talking about the justice journey. he's been on the justice journey, as you know, from a young man in college all the way through his career, he has been on the right side of the issues that matter the most to the people who are hurt the most, and those people oftentimes unfortunately, disproportionately, have always been the african-american community. but he aims to do something about that, and in terms of talking about his plan...

That's about 101 colleges and universities, but they graduate about 20% of the undergraduate degrees that come, that african-americans earn come from hbcus, so we know historically black colleges and universities have a unique position in the universe. so the senator making public and private hbcus tuition-free, investing $5 billion into helping these hbcus with infrastructure, canceling a lot of that infrastructure debt. rev, as you know, some of our institutions, they need more infrastructure dollars so they can attract more students, and equally as important, to $10 billion to increase doct...

All in. >> okay. >> what is the commitment that this president is trying to back when it comes to hbcus when it comes to say their future, funding, research projects, moving it out of the department of education into the purview of the white house, what is the commitment he is going to give today? >> i don't generally speak about executive orders until her finalized. i will just say that one of the things that i think there's a commitment from this white house to do is to look at the various resources throughout the federal government that support hbcus. for example. the department of defense ...

All in. what is the commitment sna this president is trying to make when it comes to hbcus for their funding, research projects or what have you, moving it out of department of education to the purview of the white house, what is the commitment he's going to give to them? >> look, i don't generally speak about executive orders until they're finalized. i will just say one of the things that -- i think there's a commitment from this white house to do is to look at the various resources throughout the federal government that support hbcus. for example, the department of defense has rotc programs....