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NC Senator Wanted to Drop Tuition at State HBCUs to $500. How’d He Get Labeled a Racist?
North Carolina state Sen. Tom Apodaca claimed that he was only trying to make tuition at some of the state’s historically black colleges and universities affordable when he proposed Senate Bill 873, which would have dropped tuition to $500 a semester. But the North Carolina NAACP said that the Republican senator’s bill was a shady…