“We, at the Thurgood Marshall College Fund, stand in solidarity with the students, faculty, staff, and alumni at TMCF member-school Howard University and other Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) in the wake of recent additional bomb threats. Since January, fifty-seven HBCUs have been the victim of anonymous bomb threats, which spiked at the start of Black History Month in February. Now, at the start of another academic year full of promise and opportunity, a wave of terroristic activity has started anew.
HBCUs play a critical, historic role in educating underserved communities in our nation and have never wavered in that mission, while simultaneously helping to advance the causes of equity and justice in America. While these criminal incidents are extremely disturbing and temporarily disruptive to our campus communities, our schools will not be deterred from our mission by forces who are enemies of equal opportunity in education for all Americans.
We call on the Department of Justice to redouble their efforts to investigate these matters, bring the perpetrators of all of these terroristic acts to account, and to prosecute them to the fullest extent of the law.”
Dr. Harry L. Williams
President & CEO
