- Multiple HBCUs across the country have reported bomb threats on Monday, according to reports.
- Howard University, Delaware State University, and Bowie State University are among the targeted HBCUs.
Multiple historically black colleges and universities across the country, including Howard University and Bowie State University, have reported bomb threats on Monday morning.
Delaware State University, Southern University and A&M College, Albany State University, and Bethune-Cookman University are other HBCUs that were threatened, $4.
It comes after several HBCUs reported bomb threats on the same day earlier this month, according to th$4. In a statement on Twitter, Maryland's Bowie State University said their campus is closed until further notice.
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Southern University, which is located in Lousiana,$4 that classes are canceled and instructed students to remain in their dorms.
"We are doing everything possible to ensure that our students and staff on campus are safe during this lockdown," Ray Belton, president of the university, $4. "Law enforcement agencies continue to investigate this heinous threat."
Officials at Albany State University in Georgia $4 and that "law enforcement officials are checking all campus facilities."
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According to the Washington Post, the Metropolitan Police Department and Howard University campus police issued an all-clear just before 6:30 a.m. following an investigation. A police spokesperson told CNN that the "scene has been cleared with no hazardous materials found."