After conservative commentator Charlie Kirk was fatally shot at a Utah university, a disturbing wave of racist threats targeted HBCUs and Black students nationwide. Though Kirk's murder had no ties to the Black community, institutions across the Southeast were forced into lockdown. Students and advocates now call out the rising tide of racialized violence in American education.
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