19 Nov 2009 03:38pm | Posted by Steve Rogers | 0 comments | Local News, Political, Business, Education
Proposal to Merge Black Colleges Draws Fire
WCBI's Joey Barnes is in Jackson covering today's IHL meeting. Look for more from Joey tonight on WCBI News at 5, 6, 9 and 10 and here at WCBI.com...Gov. Haley Barbour's plan to merge Mississippi's three historically black universities has created a tense atmosphere in a state saddled with a violent civil rights past and a decades-long legal battle over the historic underfunding of those schools.