ATLANTA - The FBI is investigating a wave of offensive and racist text messages sent to African American and Black communities across the United States. The messages, which have also targeted high ...
Many teenagers and college students around the country have reported receiving racist text messages and emails.
Racist text messages invoking slavery raised alarm across the country this week after they were sent to Black men, women and students, including middle schoolers, prompting inquiries by the FBI ...
The racist text messages have been reported by people in more than a dozen US states, including California, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Michigan, North Carolina, Virginia and Alabama. The wording of ...
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 ...
Many teenagers and college students reported being among those who received racist text messages sent to phone ... "I don't understand why they don't like us because of the color of our skin." ...
Reports have been flooding in of Black people across the United States ... text messages referencing slavery and "picking cotton", following Donald Trump's presidential election win. These racist ...
The text messages hark back to the era from the early 17th century to the end of the Civil War in 1865, when millions of enslaved Africans were shipped to the United States and forced to toil on ...