Multiple colleges, including 5 HBCUs, announce lockdowns amid threats

(NewsNation) — At slightest six colleges, including 5 Historically Black Colleges and Universities, are nether lockdown Thursday, aft reporting threats against the campuses had been received.

In a social media post connected Thursday, Virginia State University announced a lockdown was "out of an abundance of caution," with students advised to cheque their schoolhouse emails for updates. Southern University and Alabama State University besides announced a lockdown, adding that "Campus Police, on with different instrumentality enforcement agencies, are actively clearing each buildings connected campus." Hampton University and Bethune-Cookman University announced classes would beryllium cancelled Thursday and Friday, with students being advised not to travel to campus.

Stockton University successful New Jersey besides told its students to structure successful place astatine 1:19 p.m.