HBCU bomb threats: ‘I shouldn’t have to live in fear when I’m going to get an education’

A woman walks outside the Spelman campus after two historically Black colleges in Georgia received bomb threats. Photograph: John Spink/AP

For many students and alumni of historically Black colleges and universities, the wave of bomb threats on the campuses feel like history repeating itself.

“I was caught off-guard because we’re in 2022 and still facing the same problems as our grandparents and their grandparents,” said Marian Turner, an international studies major at Spelman College in Atlanta, referring to a time before the gains of the civil rights movement of the 1960s. “It just really brings to light everything that’s happening, because we’re actually experiencing it.”