Temple kept its commitment to open a center on anti-racism. Penn State didn't. What does that mean?

PHILADELPHIA — It was in the days after George Floyd's murder, and longtime Temple professor Molefi Kete Asante wrote a blistering five-page letter to then-university president Richard M. Englert. He called on the school to do more to support the Africology and African American studies department and combat racism. "I am totally in rage," began Asante, who started the nation's first doctoral program in African American studies at Temple in 1988 and authored 100 books, "but I have been enraged for years working at Temple University where I have devoted the bulk of my career, and I have always f...