A week after a series of bomb threats against historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) across the U.S., public officials and university presidents are speaking out against what they’ve characterized as a racist attack against the schools and their students.
“They are disappointed. They are traumatized,” Alcorn State University President Felecia Nave said of the school’s students and staff in the wake of the bomb threats. “[But] they’re resilient. And they are resolved to continue to move forward and to make it known that we won’t be threatened, we won’t be scared away.”
Michelle Asha Cooper, deputy assistant secretary for higher education programs at the U.S. Department of Education, said she believed the threats were designed to menace the colleges.
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