After Jacksonville shootings, historically Black colleges address security concerns, remain vigilant

Before the fatal shootings of three Black residents in Jacksonville, Florida, over the weekend, the gunman, a young white man with swastikas painted on his rifle, pulled into a parking lot at Edward Waters University and began putting on tactical gear. Students reported him, a campus police officer approached and he sped off in his vehicle having never identified himself.

The shootings dredged up memories of another infamous racist attack in the . . .