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COVID-19 closures could hit historically black colleges particularly hard

  • Written by Ivory A. Toldson, Professor of Counseling Psychology, Howard University
Tight finances have long beset HBCUs.Andre Chung/The Washington Post via Getty Image

As the COVID-19 crisis forces many schools to close their campuses and move all courses online, some worry that the pandemic could have a bigger negative impact on the nation’s historically black colleges and universities, than for other campuses. Here, The...

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