6 HBCUs received bomb threats Monday

Several HBCUs received bomb threats earlier this month as well.

For the second time this month, at least six historically black universities and colleges have received bomb threats.

Howard University, Bowie State University, Bethune-Cookman University, Southern University, Delaware State and Albany State University have all reported potential threats Monday.

The acting deputy director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms & Explosives, Thomas Chittum, said that agents from the bureau are responding to the reports.

"We can confirm that ATF has responded," Chittum told reporters on a call Monday. "Of course, it is a federal crime to use interstate facilities to make a bomb threat, and so ATF will provide our investigative expertise and support to that investigation, but obviously, the facts are preliminary and unfolding."