Good morning, readers.
Morgan State University, one of two historically Black colleges and universities working on opening a new medical school, has moved a step closer by snagging state approval to lease part of its property for the project.
It will be just the fifth historically Black medical school in the U.S. when it opens.
I got the chance to interview Reynold Verret, the president of Xavier University Louisiana (the other HBCU working on a medical school) earlier this summer. He told me…