The messages urged recipients in multiple states to report to a plantation to pick cotton, an offensive reference to past ...

Activists are seeking to preserve what's left of Black history along the Mississippi River. Industry and its supporters say ...

According to Murrill, the LBI traced some of the racist messages back to a VPN in Poland. This announcement comes just one ...

The Louisiana Attorney General is urging residents to not respond to racist text messages circulating in certain states. The ...

Louisiana was one of more than a dozen states to receive racists emails and texts telling the recipient they had been "selected for cotton picking." ...

The texts urged recipients to report to a plantation, a reference to enslavement of black people. Read more at ...

Carville is a St. Gabriel neighborhood located along the Mississippi River in Iberville Parish, and is roughly 16 miles south of Baton Rouge. Although Carville ... the Mississippi River where the ...

The Indian Camp Plantation went into disrepair after the ... and in the National Hansen’s Disease Clinical Center in Baton Rouge. Carville serves as a reminder of the unique role Louisiana ...

It is unclear who is behind the reported texts, how many people had received them, or how the recipients were targeted.

There are also slave cabins on-site that allow visitors to see the conditions of an enslaved person working on a plantation ... miles southeast of downtown Baton Rouge. Parking is free.