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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Joseph Gedeon in Washington

Black students and colleges across US targeted with racist threats day after Charlie Kirk killing

a sign reads 'Bethune-Cookman University'
Bethune-Cookman University in Daytona Beach, Florida. Photograph: Jeff Greenberg/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Black students across the US were targeted this week by coordinated racist death threats, forcing at least seven historically Black colleges into emergency lockdowns just a day after the far-right activist Charlie Kirk was killed at Utah Valley University.

At New York University, Black students reportedly received a threatening manifesto specifically targeting them, according to an email seen by the Guardian from the university’s Black Student Union. The manifesto was said to contain “extremely graphic threats of gun violence” and stated the author was “coming for only n******”, citing the number of Black students as taking away from a “safe space” for white people.

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