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They’re HBCUs – historically Black colleges or Universities – and there are more than 100 of them in the U.S., said Leslie Jones, founder and director of The Hundred-Seven, an organization that promotes the higher education institutions for Black students and was named after the number of HBCUs in the country at the time.

Jones, who went to Howard University in Washington, D.C., defines HBCUs the same way as the Department of Education, basing it on when the schools were founded.

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