Morehouse College The Target Of Another HBCU Bomb Threat

ATLANTA, GA — A bomb scare at Morehouse College has been deemed to not be a threat, school officials said.

Around 3:30 p.m., on Monday school officials sent messaging out to students and staff of the all men's historically Black college directing them to shelter in place because a suspicious package had been reported on the campus.

About an hour later, an all-clear message was sent to instruct those on campus to return to their regular routines “while exercising extreme caution.” Campus police and Atlanta Police officials canvased the school and determined that there was no danger, school officials said.

Morehouse President David A. Thomas said in a statement that the school received an “indirect threat” of a suspicious package “which might have contained explosive wiring.”

Thomas pointed to a string of bomb threats on historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) across the nation dating back to Feb. 1 – the beginning of Black History Month – as he encouraged those on campus to remain resilient in the face of such intimidation tactics.

Morehouse’s sister school and next-door neighbor, all-women Spelman College, was targeted twice in as many weeks.

“Recent threats against HBCUs are proof that we are doing something right,” Thomas said. “Our ability to use educational excellence to empower talented students means that the status quo will necessarily be disrupted as they become leaders in every field. Though it may make some uncomfortable, we will nevertheless proceed undaunted in our work to create transformative agents of change. No threat has ever, or will ever, stop us from turning dreams into triumph.”

The incident remains under investigation.