Black History Month Opens with More than a Dozen Bomb Threats at HBCUs

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Black History Month Opens with More than a Dozen Bomb Threats at HBCUs

The threats, the second such in two days, arrived on the first day of Black History Month. By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire More than a dozen historically Black colleges and universities received bomb threats on Tuesday, February 1. The threats, the second such in two days, arrived on the first day of Black History […]

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