Multiple HBCUs under lockdown after receiving 'terroristic threats'

Multiple historically Black colleges and universities , or HBCUs, have gone into lockdown after threats were directed at the campus, school officials announced.

Alabama State University, Hampton University, Virginia State University, Southern University and A&M College , and Bethune-Cookman University locked down the morning of Thursday, Sept. 11, each citing potential threats made against the campuses. The lockdown at Southern University was later lifted, but all campus activities and classes were cancelled through the weekend, school officials announced on social media.

Spelman College in Atlanta also asked students and faculty to avoid campus and increased security measures due to a threat against nearby Clark Atlanta University, though the shelter-in-place order was later l