{"id":127,"date":"2022-02-12T19:27:12","date_gmt":"2022-02-12T19:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/emerging-power\/?post_type=article&p=127"},"modified":"2024-06-14T12:22:54","modified_gmt":"2024-06-14T16:22:54","slug":"usa-today-hbcu-bomb-threats-are-a-painful-reminder-of-past-anti-black-violence-students-say","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/emerging-power\/articles\/usa-today-hbcu-bomb-threats-are-a-painful-reminder-of-past-anti-black-violence-students-say\/","title":{"rendered":"USA Today: HBCU bomb threats are a painful reminder of past anti-Black violence, students say"},"template":"","class_list":["post-127","article","type-article","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"details":{"summary":"Claire Thornton\r\n\r\nUSA Today: HBCU bomb threats are a painful reminder of past anti-Black violence, students say Sophia Parker, who is a Spelman fellow for Common Cause, a nonpartisan group that defends voting rights, said she thinks there's been \"a lack of action taken on behalf of Black Americans\" when threats are made against them. ... Parker and her fellow Spelman students plan to reach out to elected officials this month. The threats Spelman and other HBCUs faced were, in part, caused by pushes to ban discussions about racism from classrooms , she said. \u201cA lot of my peers who aren\u2019t even that politically involved, at least not as much as I am, are talking about wanting to get involved, just like writing letters to our senators, our representatives, people who are pushing these bills,\" said Parker.","featured_image":"","article_type":false,"authors":"","related_issues":false,"related_work":false,"location":null},"sidebar":{"helper_enable_sidebar":false,"helper_media_contact":{"heading":"Media Contact","manually_enter_person":false,"person":"","name":"","role":"","phone":"","email":""},"helper_links_downloads":{"heading":"Links & Downloads","links":null}},"page_layout":[{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_wysiwyg","_acfe_flexible_toggle":"","component_wysiwyg":{"content":"On the first day of Black History Month, Nylah Tolliver\u2019s schedule at Xavier University included three classes followed by dance team practice in the afternoon.\r\n\r\nHer day was upended before it began. She woke up Feb. 1 to an email alert saying the school received a bomb threat earlier in the day. A bomb wasn\u2019t found on campus, but the threat led to a reshuffling of classes.\r\n\r\nDisappointed, but not surprised, Tolliver instead spent the first day of February lamenting \u201chistory repeating itself,\u201d she told USA TODAY. \u2026\r\n\r\nSpelman College, a historically Black women\u2019s college\u00a0in Atlanta, has responded to three\u00a0bomb threats\u00a0so far in 2022,\u00a0according to the school\u2019s Twitter\u00a0<\/a>. No devices were found following thorough campus sweeps.\r\n\r\nSophia Parker, who is a Spelman fellow for Common Cause, a nonpartisan group that defends voting rights, said she thinks there\u2019s been \u201ca lack of action taken on behalf of Black Americans\u201d when threats are made against them. \u2026\r\n\r\nWhile the investigations continue, students and faculty are back on campus.\r\n\r\nParker\u00a0and her fellow Spelman students plan to reach out to elected officials this month. The threats Spelman and other HBCUs faced were, in part, caused by pushes to\u00a0ban discussions about racism from classrooms\u00a0<\/a>, she said.\r\n\r\n\u201cA lot of my peers who aren\u2019t even that politically involved, at least not as much as I am, are talking about wanting to get involved, just like writing letters to our senators, our representatives, people who are pushing these bills,\u201d said Parker, who said she worked on the Biden-Harris 2020 presidential campaign as a Democratic\u00a0National Committee\u00a0fellow."}},{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_add_component","_acfe_flexible_toggle":"","component_add_component":null},{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_work","_acfe_flexible_toggle":"","component_work":{"heading":"Work","manually_curate":false,"work":null}},{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_related_articles","_acfe_flexible_toggle":"","component_related_articles":{"heading":"Updates","button_text":"See all Related Articles","manually_curate":false,"articles":null}}]},"yoast_head":"\nUSA Today: HBCU bomb threats are a painful reminder of past anti-Black violence, students say - 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