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Several HBCUs On Lockdown Due To Terrorist Threats


Multiple Historically Black Colleges and Universities on lockdown for 'terroristic threats':
Mary Walrath-Holdridge
N'dea Yancey-Bragg
USA TODAY

Alabama State University, Hampton University, Virginia State University, Southern University and A&M College, and Bethune-Cookman University locked down the morning of Thursday, Sept. 11, each citing potential threats made against the campuses.

Spelman College in Atlanta also asked students and faculty to avoid campus and increased security measures due to a threat against nearby Clark Atlanta University. Campus police at Clark Atlanta University confirmed a threat had been made and a shelter-in-place order had been issued in a statement to local media.

Virginia State shared an “urgent alert” at 8:30 a.m. ET, declaring the campus closed and advising students, faculty, and staff to check their emails. Campus police are "actively investigating the credibility of the threat received earlier today" along with local, state and federal law enforcement partners, the university said in a statement.

Alabama State told USA TODAY in a statement that it received "terrorist threats" and that it had shut down campus operations out of an abundance of caution.

"We are working in close coordination with the appropriate law enforcement agencies to assess the situation and to ensure the safety and security of our students, faculty, staff, and the broader ASU community," the statement said.

Hampton University canceled classes for Sept. 11 and 12, saying in a statement, "Hampton University has received notice of a potential threat and has ceased all non-essential activity, effective immediately."

Lockdowns follow years of threats, violence at HBCUs
MSNBC host Rev. Al Sharpton condemned the threats, noting that several of the nation's roughly 100 HBCUs have been targeted in recent years. USA TODAY found more than two dozen HBCUs in 12 states and Washington, D.C., were targeted by bomb threats in 2022, prompting a federal hate crime and violent extremism investigation.

In 2023, officials said a gunman was confronted by campus security at Edward Waters University, the first historically Black college in Florida, before shooting three people at a nearby Dollar General store. Students at Tuskegee University, a private, historically Black institution, were among those wounded after gunfire erupted on campus in 2024, leaving one person dead and 16 others injured.

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Any attempt at flexing or economic muscle, I'm down ... Obviously, I can't new overly participatory with the beauty shops ( I push my family to always support my neighborhood shop - the one proudly displaying a black owned sign in their window envyusbeautysupply.com of interested)

We been needed to do something like this ... Ppl don't remember Latasha Harlins ?!

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Two Tangibles In One Week! Trump Administration Begins Black History Museum Purge


The Trump administration has initiated the return of exhibits from the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture to their original owners, including the original 1960 Woolworth’s lunch counter, according to Black Press USA.

The exhibit features sections of the original lunch counter where the sit-in protests began in Greensboro, North Carolina, on Feb. 1, 1960, with four students from North Carolina A&T State University: Ezell Blair Jr., Franklin McCain, David Richmond, and Joseph McNeil. The HBCU students were attacked after sitting at the whites-only section and being denied service. North Carolina Democratic Congresswoman and A&T alum Alma Adams said Trump can take the exhibits down, but the people will never forget. “This president is a master of distraction and is destroying what it took 250 years to build. Here’s another distraction in his quest for attention. Another failure of his first 100 days,” she said.

“We are long past the time when you can erase history—anyone’s history. You can take down exhibits, close buildings, shut down websites, ban books, and attempt to alter history, but we are long past that point. We will never forget!”

Trump attacked the museum, often referred to as the “Blacksonian,” after signing an executive order targeting the nation’s parks and museums.

“Museums in our nation’s capital should be places where individuals go to learn, not to be subjected to ideological indoctrination or divisive narratives that distort our shared history,” he said, according to USA Today.

His viewpoints are supported by attorney Lindsey Halligan, who is allegedly consulting with Vice President JD Vance to “remove improper ideology” from Smithsonian properties and said the museum needs “changing.”

The lunch counter is just one of several artifacts being returned. Long-standing civil rights leader and pastor of San Francisco’s Third Baptist Church Dr. Amos Brown revealed a letter confirming the return of a Bible and George W. Williams’s History of the Negro Race in America, 1618-1880, one of the first books written on racism. The items have been displayed since the museum’s opening in September 2016. Amos said the items have sentimental value as the Bible once belonged to his father. “The Bible—that’s my father’s Bible and the Bible I used in the Civil Rights Movement,” Amos said.

“When we went on demonstrations, we always had the Bible.”

Exhibit removals and the target have sparked a firestorm of criticism among advocates fighting to preserve the museum as it was initially founded. Black churches across state lines have rallied against Trump’s accusations of “divisive, race-centered ideology.” Rev. Robert Turner of Empowerment Temple African Methodist Episcopal Church in Baltimore did the math and began asking members of his congregation for an extra offering to support museum preservation efforts.

“For only $25 a year, you can protect Black history,” Moss told his congregation.

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