Police and security personnel at some of the nation’s top HBCUs are investigating a series of Monday morning bomb threats, according to multiple sources.

Albany State University, Bethune-Cookman University, Bowie State University, Delaware State University, Howard University and Southern University and A&M College all received bomb threats on Monday, according to CNN.

Howard University’s campus in Washington D.C. is pictured in this undated photo. (Credit: Howard University)

Washington D.C. Metropolitan Police Department officers responded to a call about a threat at Howard University around 4:22 a.m., according to a department spokesperson.

The threat involved an area around the Mordecai Wyatt Johnson Administration Building on campus, according to a safety alert email shared on Twitter Monday morning.

“We did respond and we cleared it. We found no hazardous materials,” MPD public information officer Makhetha Watson told theGrio.

Charles R. Drew University campus is pictured in this undated photo. (Credit: Charles R. Drew University website)

The five other schools named are still investigating threats, according to CNN.

Bowie State University near Baltimore temporarily closed its campus and transitioned to virtual classes Monday morning while emergency personnel investigated a threat made at the school, according to campus emergency alert shared on Twitter.

“All persons on campus are advised to shelter in place until more information is available,” the school tweeted.

This is the second time this month several HBCUs have received bomb threats.

Howard, the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff, Florida Memorial University, Norfolk State University, North Carolina Central University, Prairie View A&M University in Texas and Xavier University in Louisiana all received threats about explosives on Jan. 5, as previously reported by theGrio.

No explosions were reported after the incident.

On Jan. 11, administrators at Charles R. Drew University medical school in Willowbrook, Calif. shut down their campus after someone claiming to be a “white, male, neo-Nazi fascist” emailed a threat to the school.

The perpetrator said he or she had “planted three titanium nitrite sulfuric bombs around the eastern and northern parts of campus,” per the Los Angeles Times. 

“I want to show the Black population what the white man can do, we will take back our land!” the threat said.

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