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The growing aftermath of the White House controversy following violence and bigotry in Charlottesville, VA last weekend has reached the HBCU community, as leaders from advocacy groups and Capitol Hill are calling for the Trump Administration to cancel the annual White House Initiative on HBCUs conference.

U.S. Rep. Alma Adams has urged President Donald Trump and U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos to postpone the 2017 National HBCU Week Conference in September because, she said, Trump hasn't fulfilled the promises he made when he signed an executive order in February.

U.S. Sen. Richard Burr, R-N.C., reacted Thursday to President Trump's tweets that the removal of Confederate statues around the country is foolish and would damage the nation's history and culture.

Burr and U.S. Rep. David Price, D-4th, were the only members of the state's delegation to Congress who talked about Trump's most recent statements about Confederate monuments.

The searing images of Neo-Nazis and white supremacists battling on the streets of Charlottesville, Virginia, with counter-protesters on Saturday, culminating in the tragic murder of a young white woman when a car driven by an alleged Nazi sympathizer slammed into an unsuspecting crowd, are still in the minds and hearts of most African-Americans almost a week later.

At Moore Place north of uptown Tuesday, local leaders gathered to talk about possible solutions to what's become a major theme in Charlotte politics: Affordable housing and the lack thereof, as the city's boom continues.

Unconvinced federal authorities will call out white nationalism, Charlotte's social and political leaders are taking up the cause.

WASHINGTON — With great fanfare, President Donald Trump vowed to outdo former President Barack Obama in supporting the nation's historically black colleges when he signed an executive order in February to place oversight of the schools directly in the White House.

Six months later, the school's leaders are still waiting for results.