"Congratulations! you have been selected to pick cotton at the nearest plantation," reads one version of the messages.

People throughout the D.C. area and across the country reported receiving racist spam text messages the day after the ...

While the texts – sent before and after Trump defeated Kamala Harris on Tuesday – vary in language, many indicate to ...

Researchers at the Bridging Divides Initiative, a nonpartisan think tank at Princeton that studies and attempts to mitigate ...

Black students at multiple universities are reportedly receiving racist text messages regarding picking cotton and slavery.

"From what I'm seeing, it seems to be quite organized and planned out," said Alex Holden, founder and chief information ...

The FBI is investigating messages that say a van will pick people up to "pick cotton." One of the messages was sent to a ...

Black people getting texts about being grouped to pick cotton at plantations, women and young girls being harassed by men saying, “your body, my choice.” This is the America you voted for and it’s ...

A South Florida woman said she was among the people across the country who received texts in the wake of Tuesday’s<a ...

The FBI and attorney generals in Virginia and Washington, D.C. confirmed that they are aware of the offensive text messages ...

One day after the presidential election, and in the days following, Black people across the country, reportedly as young as middle schoolers, received text messages addressing them by name and telling ...

The FCC and FBI are investigating a spate of racist text messages telling Black Americans they've been "selected to pick ...