The FBI has officially announced that a single minor youth is the main suspect in most racially motivated bomb threats to dozens of Historically Black Colleges and Universities earlier this year that terrorized students. The FBI in a statement on Monday did not release any further details — only that the individual …
Read More »FBI: Most HBCU Bomb Threats May Be Coming From One Juvenile
by Ariana Figueroa, Missouri Independent March 17, 2022 WASHINGTON — A top FBI official told members of a U.S. House panel on Thursday that the agency believes a single juvenile is behind most of the bomb threats made to more than 30 Historically Black Colleges and Universities. Ryan Young, executive …
Read More »VP Kamala Harris Announces Federal Security Grants For HBCUs That Received Bomb Threats
On Wednesday, Vice President Kamala Harris and the U.S. Department of Education announced that Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) that have recently experienced bomb threats are eligible to apply for grant funds under the Project School Emergency Response to Violence (Project SERV) program. Project SERV provides short-term immediate funding …
Read More »House Condemns Bomb Threats Made Against HBCUs
by Ariana Figueroa, Missouri Independent March 8, 2022 WASHINGTON – The U.S. House on Tuesday passed a resolution condemning the weeks-long chain of bomb threats made to Historically Black Colleges and Universities. The resolution, sponsored by North Carolina Democratic Rep. Alma Adams, is in response to the more than 30 bomb threats …
Read More »Rep. Wilson Leads Letter Asking AG Garland to Fully Investigate Threats to HBCUs
Congresswoman Frederica S. Wilson (D-FL), Chair of the Higher Education and Workforce Investment Subcommittee, has delivered a letter to United States Attorney General Merrick Garland calling for the full investigation of recent threats made against Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). “In less than a month, more than one dozen …
Read More »Pelosi, Beatty, Adams Release Joint Statement on Continued Bomb Threats Against HBCUs
Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Congressional Black Caucus Chairwoman Joyce Beatty and HBCU Caucus Founder and Co-Chair Alma Adams issued the following joint statement in response to this week’s bomb threats at over a dozen Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). “The continued bomb threats against HBCUs are hate crimes that must …
Read More »13 HBCUs Report Bomb Threats on the First Day of Black History Month
More than a dozen historically black colleges and universities reported bomb threats on the first day of Black History Month, marking the second consecutive day of threats at many of the HBCUs. Jackson State University, Howard University, Coppin State University, Mississippi Valley State University, Morgan State University, Alcorn State University, Tougaloo …
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