to give these schools the same amount of funding they received last year. This budget proposal is not a new deal for African Americans. It’s a raw deal that robs the poor and the middle-class to pay the richest of the rich.”

Alumni giving could offset many of the financial needs of HBCUs. According to US News and World Report, Claflin University, has the highest rate of alumni giving with an average of 48.9 percent of alumni donating during the 2012-2013 and 2013-2014 school years.

It had the highest percentage of alumni who donated among 46 HBCUs that submitted data to U.S. News in an annual survey. Bennett College, an all-women’s school, is right behind Claflin with an average of 38.2 percent of alumni who donated during a two-year period.to make that information nonrestrictive by using a comma:

Richard was born in 1885 to Mr. Blake and his wife, Edith.

It's also possible Mr. Blake has a wife and a mistress. In which case the first name might still be mentioned in order to help distinguish between the two—but, again, with a nonrestrictive comma:

Richard was born in 1885 to Mr. Blake and his wife, Edith. His mistress, Nancy, wasn't too happy about it.

However, if we discount a plurality of wives and this last possibility, then we return to the other answers in order to explain the inconsistency.

