Birmingham-SouthernCollege joined a long list of deadbeat white organizations that have found financial survivability by sticking its spigots into the city’s last few gushers of revenue streams. Birmingham-Southern is pimping Black elected officials to help the college secure taxpayer "bailout" funding that should be legitimately channeled to HBCUs in Alabama to compensate them for the gross underfunding that these institutions have experienced for over a hundred years.

Doyal Reed is Birmingham, Alabama's last warrior for economic justice. Reed's MESBIC empowered businesses in the city in the 1980s & 90s.