Jubilee Hall at historically Black Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee. The school reported Thursday students have been receiving concerning text messages. (Photo: John Partipilo)
Fisk University campus safety officials are on “high alert” following “disturbing and offensive” messages targeting members of its community, a spokesperson said Thursday.
The messages “suggest threats of violence and intimidation, and are deeply unsettling,” a campus-wide alert issued late Wednesday said.
The alert said that university officials believe the messages are “likely the work of an automated bot or malicious actors with no real intentions or credibility.”
Fisk is a historically Black campus located near downtown Nashville.
Maya Brown, executive director of Fisk’s Office of Marketing and Communications, did not describe the contents of the messages.
However, multiple news outlets have reported that college and university students nationwide have received racist messages telling them to report to vans or other transportation that will deliver them to plantations to pick cotton.
