Attending an HBCU Has Always Been an Act of Courage
On Monday, campus life at at least seven historically Black colleges and universities was interrupted by bomb threats. School leaders alerted students, faculty, and staff. Law-enforcement officers swept the grounds. By midday, some campuses had issued an all-clear while others continued assessing the situation. This was the second time in January that several HBCUs—most of which were created after the Civil War to educate Black students, while the rest of the higher-education establishment refused to—received such threats.
A day later, in the predawn hours of the first day of Black History Month, it happened again. This time more than a dozen Black colleges received, told me. “People don’t want to see African Americans in certain places. Some of this is hate; some of it is intended to disrupt what we do.”
