CENTER CITY (WPVI) -- Education activists are gearing up for an historic rally to save an historic Pennsylvania university.
Organizers gathered in Center City Thursday morning, 5 days before a planned protest in Harrisburg, where they'll call on lawmakers to save Cheney University.
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The nation's oldest historically Black university is facing deficits that could force its imminent closure.
This group says that's because of decades of financial discrimination at the state level.
A civil rights lawsuit was filed last year.