Racist text messages are being sent to Black Americans in Ohio and around the nation, telling them they're selected to be enslaved and assigned to pick cotton on a plantation.

Racist, anonymous text messages were sent to Black people across the U.S. telling them to report to a plantation to pick cotton, according to law-enforcement officials and civil-rights leaders.Black people in states including Alabama,

The messages tell recipients they have been selected "to pick cotton" or “chosen to be a slave", authorities say.