Federal and local authorities are investigating a host of racist text messages sent to an unknown number of Black recipients ...

The messages urged recipients in multiple states to report to a plantation to pick cotton, an offensive reference to past ...

The texts were received by people in states including Alabama, Texas, Georgia, Florida, Maryland, Pennsylvania, South ...

I am grateful they didn’t. I felt their strength again when I read a friend's Facebook post about text messages being sent to ...

The FBI and state law enforcement are working to find the source of messages targeting Black people sent the day after the ...

A text messaging service announced Friday that it ended the accounts of users allegedly connected to racists texts sent ...

The anonymous texts — some referring to the recipients by name — seem to have begun just hours after the election was called ...

Fisk University, a historically Black university in Nashville, Tennessee, issued a statement calling the messages that ...

Variations of a racist text message are being sent to Black students in Oklahoma and across the country. The FBI is ...

The FBI and other authorities are looking into how Black Americans in Ohio and other states received racist text messages.

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

Racist text messages are being sent to Black Americans in Ohio and around the nation, telling them they're selected to be ...