Federal and state authorities are working to find the origins of racist text messages sent to Black people across the country referencing slavery and telling them they were “selected to pick ...
Elderly folks are being targeted, too. The source of the text message threats remain unknown as many texts are coming from different phone numbers across the country, making them difficult to ...
Dozens of black Americans have received text messages telling them they had been "selected" to pick cotton "at the nearest plantation". The messages invoking slavery were sent to university ...
Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Racist text messages invoking slavery raised alarm across the country this week after they were sent to ...
A racist text message from an unfamiliar number also arrived by name to the Black 15-year-old daughter of Laura Bass-Brown, she told CNN affiliate KHOU 11 News in the Houston area.