Racist text messages referencing slavery raise alarms in multiple states and prompt investigations
Racist text messages invoking slavery raised alarm across the country this week after they were sent to Black men, women and ...
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Racist texts tell Black people in US to prepare for slavery
Texts threatening Black people with slavery in 2024 is "not normal," NAACP President Derrick Jackson said. "And we refuse to ...
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1760 schoolhouse for Black U.S. children holds complicated history of slavery, resilience
A Virginia museum has nearly finished restoring the nation's oldest surviving schoolhouse for Black children, where hundreds ...
After election, racist texts nationwide threaten Black people with slavery
Black people in several states received racist texts, some that claimed to be affiliated with Donald Trump, ordering them to work as slaves on plantations.
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The prosecutors who have rescued tens of thousands of people from slave labor in Brazil
According to the Ministry of Labor and Employment, 3,190 workers being held captive were rescued throughout the country in ...
Authorities probing bigoted text messages that spread alarm across US
The messages urged recipients in multiple states to report to a plantation to pick cotton, an offensive reference to past ...
Authorities work to find the source of racist texts sent to Black people nationwide after the election. Here’s what we know
Federal and state authorities are working to find the origins of racist text messages sent to Black people across the country ...
Kentucky youth also reportedly receive 'racist' text message telling Black people to pick cotton at plantations
Text messages referencing slavery and cotton picking have circulated to young Black people in several states including Kentucky, FBI Louisville said.
Authorities investigate disturbing, racist text messages sent across the US: 'Unacceptable'
Federal and local authorities are investigating a host of racist text messages sent to an unknown number of Black recipients ...
Opinion: Black people are receiving racist text messages. Blame Trump's rhetoric.
It is not clear if the people behind the campaign to terrorize and marginalize are actually Trump supporters. At the end of ...
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What keeps African nations in the Commonwealth?
They were taken across the Atlantic against their will and sold into slavery across the Americas. Some tallies state that the ...