Just a day after his victory at the polls, Black Americans mass reported texts they received that they would be picking cotton soon. With the country’s obvious history of the transatlantic slave ...

State attorneys general across the country are urging people to notify the authorities if they received one of the racist text messages sent Wednesday to scores of Black people, telling them they ...

Dozens of Black people across the country said they have received text messages telling them they had been “selected” to pick cotton “at the nearest plantation.” The messages came just ...

The FCC and FBI are investigating a spate of racist text messages telling Black Americans they’ve been “selected to pick cotton,” per reporting from NBC News reporter Zinhle Essamuah.

“It said he has been chosen to be part of group B to go pick cotton at a plantation, and he will be picked up by a black van and to be ready by 6 p.m. And he said a lot of his Hispanic friends ...

Racist texts about slaves and ‘picking cotton’ sent to Black people as state AGs, colleges and police probe their origins Ashley R. Williams, Jack Forrest, Jillian Sykes and Sean Lyngaas, CNN ...

Talaya Jones, a Black resident of Piscataway, New Jersey, was “shocked,” then angry and sad, to get a racist text Wednesday telling her she had been “selected to pick cotton at the nearest ...

Talaya Jones, a Black resident of Piscataway, New Jersey, was “shocked,” then angry and sad, to get a racist text Wednesday telling her she had been “selected to pick cotton at the nearest ...

Racist texts have been reported nationwide, with Black students as the primary recipients (Getty ... The texts, which tell recipients they were “selected to pick cotton at the nearest plantation,” ...

Officials and universities in a growing number of U.S. states are condemning racist text messages that were sent to Black residents ... they had been "selected for cotton picking" or to become ...

Authorities across the United States are investigating after racist text messages – some with references to “slave catchers” and “picking cotton” reminiscent of ... Students from at least three ...

In the wake of Republican Donald Trump winning the presidential election, scores of Black students across the ... of being sent to a plantation to pick cotton. The Detroit Free Press has learned ...