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Black students and colleges across US targeted with racist threats day after Charlie Kirk killing

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Black students and colleges across US targeted with racist threats day after Charlie Kirk killing

FBI said threats were ‘hoax calls’, although universities took measures to prevent incidences on campuses

Black students across the US were targeted this week by coordinated racist death threats, forcing at least seven historically Black colleges into emergency lockdowns just a day after far-right activist Charlie Kirk was killed at Utah Valley University.

At New York University, Black students reportedly received a threatening manifesto specifically targeting them, according to an email seen by the Guardian from the university’s Black Student Union. The manifesto was said to contain “extremely graphic threats of gun violence” and stated the author was “coming for only n******”, citing the number of Black students as taking away from a “safe space” for white people.

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