CHESTERFIELD COUNTY, Va. (WRIC/NEXSTAR) – Several historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) were on lockdown Thursday amid reports of threats to campus safety, according to representatives from the schools.

Those schools include Virginia State University in Ettrick, Virginia; Hampton University in Hampton, Virginia; Southern University and A&M College in Baton Rouge, Louisiana; Bethune-Cookman University in Daytona Beach, Florida; Clark Atlanta University in Georgia, and Alabama State University in Montgomery.

Students and faculty were alerted to the threats on Thursday morning. Some of the lockdowns had been lifted by mid-afternoon after sweeps by law enforcement officials.

A spokesperson for Virginia State University told Nexstar's WRIC that its closure was "due to a potent

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