Following a series of unsolved bomb threats directed at historically Black colleges and universities, or HBCUs, the FBI revealed this week that at least 57 institutions, including houses of worship, have received such threats between Jan. 4 and Feb. 14.
The FBI reported that the threats have been made by phone, email, instant messages or anonymous online posts. By Feb. 2, the FBI’s joint terrorism task forces had identified at least sixThere hasn’t been a week in February without a bomb threat reported at an HBCU. In all, more than two dozen
Bethune-Cookman University in Daytona Beach, Fla. A bomb threat was called in to the campus on Feb. 1. “Acts of domestic terrorism have further stained the fabric that has attempted to hold this country together,” Carmen J. Walters, the president of Tougaloo College, said.
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