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Breaking: Fisk University in Nashville on ‘high alert’ after ‘disturbing and offensive’ messages 

Fisk University officials are on “high alert” following “disturbing and offensive” messages targeting members of its community, a spokesperson said Thursday.

This story has been updated with additional information from a Fisk University spokesperson.

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, described the messages as similar to those multiple news outlets have reported are circulating at campuses across the country: racist messages that appear to target Black students that tell them to report to vans or other transportation that will deliver them to plantations to pick cotton.

Message sent to students and staff of Nashville's Fisk University, a historically Black university.
Message sent to students and staff of Nashville’s Fisk University, a historically Black university.

The article in this post was originally published on Tennessee Lookout and parts of it are included here under a Creative Commons license CC BY-ND 4.0

Anita Wadhwani is a senior reporter for the Tennessee Lookout. The Tennessee AP Broadcasters and Media (TAPME) named her Journalist of the Year in 2019 as well as giving her the Malcolm Law Award for Investigative Journalism. Wadhwani is formerly an…

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