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Jarvis R. Givens theorizes that fugitive pedagogy  includes the subversive educational acts that Black educators performed while enslaved and through Jim Crow to ensure Black children were learning despite anti-Black exclusion and confinement. Givens notes that Black education was always a fugitive project as enslaved people were forbidden to read and write across southern states. Under strict antiliteracy laws, reading and writing was literally criminalized, thus making the

For the last 30 years Congress has supported enrollment-based Minority-Serving Institutions (MSIs), including Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs). These institutions, which not only enroll a significant number of students of color and low-income students but also promote their academic success and upward mobility , have benefitted from steady appropriations by way of competitive grants. But HSIs have found themselves under attack as the current administration pushes for race