You have been selected to pick cotton at the nearest plantation ... vile and threatening texts messages are being sent to young African-Americans throughout the country, including on college ...

Old images of African Americans picking cotton remind many of the oppression suffered by generations of Black slaves before the Emancipation Proclamation. For Black Americans in particular ...

The texts follow a pattern that addresses recipients by name, telling them they were selected to “pick cotton” on a plantation and ordered to be ready to be picked up by handlers to be ...

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Authorities are investigating racist text messages sent to black Americans across the country telling them to report to a plantation "to pick cotton". Black Americans, including school and college ...

And for people of African descent, the cotton gin was not progress. It was a further entrenchment of enslavement. And for African Americans, the Industrial Revolution, those technological advances ...

A white teacher in Rochester, New York, is being investigated over allegations that he made Black students pick cotton and wear handcuffs during lessons about slavery. Two children in separate ...