HBCUs Under Siege: Anti-Black Agenda Escalates to Terror
#RolandMartinUnfiltered
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🗓️ 13 September 2025
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Bomb threats have forced multiple HBCUs into lockdown, a crisis leaders describe as part of an escalating antiblack agenda. Calls are growing for the FBI and Department of Justice to treat these incidents as domestic terrorism, warning that Black institutions and students are being viciously targeted. The climate of intimidation reflects what speakers called a historical escalation, with Black America increasingly under siege. Despite the threats, the message was clear: communities will not be intimidated and will continue to resist.
🔥 Bomb threats forced multiple HBCUs into lockdown across the country
🔥 Leaders call on DOJ and FBI to investigate as acts of domestic terrorism
🔥 “We are literally living in a climate where Black people are being attacked”
🔥 “This is a historical escalation” — HBCUs are under direct, systemic threat
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:03.9 | Multiple HBCUs have been under a lockdown amid threats to their campuses, |
| 0:10.2 | Alabama State University, Hampton University, Virginia State University, Southern University in Baton |
| 0:17.7 | Rouge, as well as Bethune-Cookman University in Florida, were all placed on lockdown today, each citing potential threats made against their campuses in Atlanta. |
| 0:27.9 | Spelman College urged students and faculty to avoid campus and implement it heightened security measures following a threat made against nearby Clark Atlanta University. |
| 0:38.3 | Campus Police at Clark Atlanta University confirmed a threat had been received, |
| 0:42.3 | prompting a shelter-in-place order. |
| 0:44.3 | These incidents come one day after right-wing influencer Charlie Kirk was shot dead on a college campus in Utah. |
| 0:52.3 | HouseBority Leader Hakeem Jeffries released a statement about these |
| 0:57.5 | threats. This is what he had to say. He said the violent threats made today against several |
| 1:02.8 | historically black colleges universities throughout the nation are despicable. And yet another |
| 1:07.3 | indication that the explosion of hateful extremism is out of control. |
| 1:11.3 | We stand with the students, faculty, communities that have had their peace and safety disrupted. |
| 1:16.6 | I'm thankful to local law enforcement for their swift response. |
| 1:19.9 | The Department of Justice and FBI must thoroughly investigate any potential act of domestic terrorism |
| 1:26.0 | and not turn a blind eye when black college students |
| 1:29.6 | are apparently being viciously targeted. These attempts to intimidate everyday Americans will |
| 1:35.3 | not stand. We need leadership at this moment that brings the country together. Now, a threat was |
| 1:41.5 | also made against a Democratic National Committee headquarters. |
| 1:44.4 | Senate staff received an alert from the U.S. Capitol regarding the responses of the National Party's |
| 1:48.8 | headquarters, according to a statement from the U.S. Capitol Police. |
| 1:52.8 | Officers were alerted to the potential threat at 107 p.m. Eastern and began sweeping the building |
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