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  "publishedAt": "2026-05-01T20:00:00.000Z",
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  "tags": [
    "HBCUs",
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    "South Carolina State University",
    "An HBCU Canceled Its MAGA Commencement Speaker, Now Republicans Want to Defund It",
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  "textContent": "Less than two weeks before graduation day, students at South Carolina State University learned that a MAGA-supporting politician had been invited to speak at their upcoming commencement ceremony. The students wasted no time in taking their grievances about South Carolina Lt. Gov. Pamela Evette to the school’s president and provost. Three days after the news […]\n\nThe post An HBCU Canceled Its MAGA Commencement Speaker, Now Republicans Want to Defund It appeared first on Capital B News.",
  "title": "An HBCU Canceled Its MAGA Commencement Speaker, Now Republicans Want to Defund It"
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