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Despite ‘HBCU-ish’ shirts, Temple University is not historically black | Solomon Jones

Temple was born as a place where working-class students could earn a college degree through night classes and hard work. But that origin story is about choice. The story of HBCUs is about necessity.

Students walk through the Temple University campus on the first day of the fall semester on August 26, 2019.
Students walk through the Temple University campus on the first day of the fall semester on August 26, 2019.Read moreRACHEL WISNIEWSKI / For the Inquirer