A political action committee that advocated for N.C. State University gave to the N.C. Legislative Black Caucus Foundation.
The Economic Development Coalition 2000 was formed in 1995 to promote the university's interests before the legislature, said Reef Ivey II, a Raleigh attorney who served as its treasurer.
According to the PAC's campaign finance records, it has given a total of $6,000 since 1997 to the Black Caucus Foundation.
In a note of irony, the PAC was the target of a protest in March by two dozen students of the state’s historically black universities. They argued that it and a similar political action committee for UNC-Chapel Hill gave the schools an unfair advantage when it came to state funding.
Among the legislators they met with were members of the black caucus, who were sympathetic, according to the N&O's Jane Stancill:
"A blind man can see there's not any parity," said Rep. Larry Womble, a Democrat from Winston-Salem, who wore a red lapel pin from Winston-Salem State.
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