Dozens of Black people across the country said they have received text messages telling them they had been “selected” to pick cotton “at the nearest plantation.” The messages came just ...

Talaya Jones, a Black resident of Piscataway, New Jersey, was “shocked,” then angry and sad, to get a racist text Wednesday telling her she had been “selected to pick cotton at the nearest ...

You have been selected to pick cotton at the nearest plantation ... told him that targeting certain demographic groups, such as Black Americans, could potentially be done by acquiring data ...

The cotton was used in an activity where students put their hands in a box to determine what was inside, the lawsuit said. After the activity, the teacher gave the two Black students in the class ...

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As the cotton harvest approaches ... with 92.4% identifying as Black Bajans, reflecting the enduring impact of the transatlantic slave trade. Bajan Creole, a regional English variant, is widely ...