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#hbcus

Driving the news: At least seven HBCUs went on lockdown on Thursday, including Alabama State University, Virginia State University, Hampton University, Spelman College, Southern University and A&M College, Clark Atlanta University, Bethune-Cookman. Some of the schools, including Spelman, Southern, Clark Atlanta and VSU have since lifted their shelter-in-place orders after no threats were found. It is not immediately clear if the threats are connected or racially motivated.

Driving the news: The Foundation to Combat Antisemitism (FCAS) tells Axios that the unity dinners will begin mid-September in New Orleans, bringing students together from Tulane, Xavier, Dillard and Loyola universities. Dinners will then continue in Baltimore, Washington D.C., Atlanta, Philadelphia and Houston as part of a 14-city tour. The effort will invite students from Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) as well as from schools like Rice, Temple and the University of Houston.

Since the 1980s, the executive director of the HBCUs initiative, established by President Jimmy Carter, has been responsible for advocating for HBCUs' federal policy interests.

Plenty of players have been standouts at HBCUs that have made differences in the league, but it is good that now at least I've created a branch from a front office standpoint in the NFL coming from an HBCU.