Bomb threats target Georgia HBCUs on first day of Black History Month

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Historically Black colleges and universities across Georgia and the U.S. were the targets of bomb threats on Monday and Tuesday — the first day of Black History Month. (Allison Guillory/WABE)

Spelman College in Atlanta and Fort Valley State University just south of Macon both received bomb threats Tuesday morning — a day after other historically Black colleges and universities in Georgia and across the U.S. were the targets of similar threats.

The latest threats against HBCUs came on the first day of Black History Month.

Local, state and federal law enforcement agencies found no bombs or other explosives on Spelman and Fort Valley State’s campuses, the schools announced Tuesday afternoon.