Authorities across the United States are investigating after racist text messages – some with references to “slave catchers” and “picking cotton” reminiscent of the country’s painful and bigoted past – have been received by children,

Black people in states including Alabama, North Carolina, Virginia, New York and Pennsylvania reported receiving the text messages. The messages started arriving in recent days, w

People across America have been getting racist text messages invoking slavery. Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill says it is happening here too.

Federal and state authorities are working to find the origins of racist text messages sent to Black people across the country threatening them with slavery and telling them they were “selected to pick cotton at the nearest plantation.

Racist text messages summoning Black individuals to "pick cotton" have been sent out to residents across the country, including in Texas, in the wake of the presidential election. Houston area resident Laura Bass Brown told KHOU 11 her daughter,

The FBI says it's aware of the text messages, which reportedly came from unknown phone numbers and appear to be specifically targeting Black individuals across the United States.

Racist texts referring to ‘picking cotton’ sent to Black people across US after election Authorities across the United States are investigating after racist text messages – some with references to “slave catchers” and “picking cotton” reminiscent of the country’s painful and bigoted past – have been received by children,

You have been selected to be a house slave’ – read one of the messages Black Americans received following Donald Trump’s victory in the US elections. A wave of racist texts with references to slave catchers’ and ‘picking cotton’ were sent to people,