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The Bakari Sellers Podcast

All Things HBCUs With Dillard President Walter M. Kimbrough

The Bakari Sellers Podcast

The Ringer

Politics, News

4.8966 Ratings

🗓️ 14 December 2020

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Bakari is joined by Dillard University president Walter M. Kimbrough to talk about Trump and Obama's respective legacies with how they helped HBCUs (4:22), the Biden-Harris administration's plan for HBCUs (15:19), and how HBCUs can become more competitive schools (28:09). Host: Bakari Sellers Guest: Walter M. Kimbrough Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Thank you for tuning in to another episode of the Bakari Sellers podcast.

0:15.4

Today we'll be interviewing somebody who we all know from Twitter.

0:19.4

He is one of the best, if not the best,

0:21.6

the best, HBCU president we have out there.

0:23.4

His name is Dr. Walter Kimbrough.

0:25.1

He's the president of Dillard University.

0:27.7

He's going to talk to us about the future of our historically black colleges

0:31.2

and universities. But before I get to our conversation

0:35.1

with Dr. Kimbrough, I wanted to talk about a meeting last week in the White House between

0:39.5

the President-elect and Vice President-elect and our quote-unquote legacy civil rights

0:45.9

organizations. In case you missed it last week the NAACP, the National Urban

0:51.3

League, the National Action Network, the Black Women's Roundtable,

0:55.4

the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, and the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights All Met. Here's a clip.

1:04.0

One of the things I'd be concerned about.

1:07.0

Just as was pointed out to me that you wanted me to be concerned, Derek, I think as you said it about you know dealing with

1:16.6

Vilsack as in in terms of a of agriculture well first of all you can learn more about

1:25.0

Vilsack's record but my point is this I don't think we should make that a big

1:29.3

issue going into before January 5th when the election takes place down in in Georgia.

1:40.0

But I also don't think we should get too far ahead of ourselves on dealing with police reform

1:47.0

in that because they've already labeled us as being defund the police. Anything we put forward in terms of the organizational structure

1:55.8

to change policing, which I promise you will occur.

1:59.4

Promise you.

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