At least a dozen bomb threats have menaced historically Black colleges and universities during Black History Month alone.
AMY, the 2017 film by Stanley Nelson, one of the leading documentarians of the Black American experience.In a moment we’re going to talk about the film you’ve been nominated for an Oscar for,, but can you talk about the significance of HBCUs and the threats they’re facing right through to today, this dramatic congressional hearing that took place yesterday on the bomb threats?You know, the significance of HBCUs cannot be overstated.
And I think it’s really significant, because HBCUs, many of them, were formed right after the Civil War, and so they’ve been around for over 150 years. And I think the threat that they’re under now is really significant and really is almost — is really telling, because it’s kind of like where this country is, that 150 years after their formation, once again they’re under threat. When they were first formed in the 1870s, 1880s, they were burned and under threat.
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